Money-Go-Rounds (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040291436
• Artikelnr.: 72281813

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