Mutualist Microfinance Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core?

• Main Author: Swaan de, Abram (auth)
• Other Authors: Linden van der, Marcel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Aksant Academic Publishers 2006
• Subjects: Sociology & anthropology; anhtropologie; anthropology; Apartheid; Cape Town; Rotating savings and credit association; Self-help; Senegal; Suriname
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Small mutual funds once flourished in nineteenth century Europe and North America. They still abound in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In recent years they have come back to European and North American cities with the immigrants from the global South. Some of the small mutual savings funds use the...