Money-Go-Rounds

The Importance of ROSCAs for Women
Herausgeber: Ardener, Shirley; Burman, Sandra

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

On most continents - from the USA to Africa and Asia - various forms of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) serve men and women of the community, often as their major -- and sometimes their only -- savings institution. ROSCAs are self-help money-pooling associations with participants who agree to make regular contributions to a fund which is given, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation. Many ROSCAs have elaborate systems to cope with inflation, default and the distribution of benefits. In providing important social and welfare resources they constitute valuable social capital. This unique volume of case studies by an international group of experts, which examines ROSCAs on a worldwide basis, will be of interest to anyone studying or concerned with anthropology, economics, women's issues, and especially the welfare of the less developed countries and immigrant communities in 'the West'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781859731703
• ISBN-10: 1859731708
• Artikelnr.: 22460316

Autorenporträt

Mrs Shirley Ardener Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women,University of Oxford Sandra Burman Senior Member of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford and Director of the Socio-legal Unit, University of Cape Town

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Women Making Money Go Round: ROSCAs Revisited PART I: Africa 2.
Building New Realities: African Women and ROSCAs in Urban South Africa 3.
The Kiambu Group: A Successful Women's ROSCA in Mathare Valley, Nairobi
(1971 to 1990) 4. A Note on ROSCAs among Ethiopian Women in Addis Ababa and
Eritrean Women in Oxford 5. Mobilizing Cash for Business: Women in Rotating
Susu Clubs in Ghana 6. Women's Access to and the Control of Credit in
Cameroon: The Mamfe Case 7. Looking at Financial Landscapes: A Contextual
Analysis of ROSCAs in Cameroon PART II: Asia 8. Women's Differential Use of
ROSCAs in Indonesia 9. Economic Kou (ROSCAs) in Japan: A Review 10. Women's
ROSCAs in Contemporary Indian Society 11. Gender Inequality, ROSCAs and
Sectoral Employment Strategies: Questions from the South Indian Silk
Industry PART III: Diasporas 12. ROSCAs among South Asians in Oxford 13. A
Note on ROSCAs among Northern Somali Women in the United Kingdom 14. Gender
Differences in ROSCA Participation within Korean Business Households in Los
Angeles 15. Gold Coins and Coffee ROSCAs: Coping with Inflation the Turkish
Way in Northern Cyprus 16. Women's Use of ROSCAs in the Caribbean:
Reassessing the Literature