Social Collateral - Women and Microfinance in Paraguay's Smuggling Economy

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-520-28704-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world’s poor. In this book, Caroline Schuster explores Paraguayan solidarity lending as a window into the tensions between social development and global finance.

Social Collateral tracks collective debt across the commercial society and smuggling economies at the Paraguayan border by examining group loans made to women by nonprofit development programs. These highly regulated loans are secured through mutual support and peer pressure—social collateral—rather than through physical collateral. This story of social collateral necessarily includes an interwoven account about the feminization of solidarity lending. At its core is an economy of gender—from pink-collar financial work, to men’s committees, to women smugglers. At stake are interdependencies that bind borrowers and lenders, financial technologies, and Paraguayan development in ways that structure both global inequality and global opportunity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schuster, Caroline E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: Regulatory Forms
1. Entrepreneurship
2. Liability

Part Two: Life Cycles of Loans
3. Creditworthiness
4. Repayment
5. Renewal

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline E. Schuster is Lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University.