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Analysis Of Small Business Lending In Texas, Steve A. Johnson, David A. Schauer, Dennis L. Soden
Analysis Of Small Business Lending In Texas, Steve A. Johnson, David A. Schauer, Dennis L. Soden
IPED Technical Reports
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With The Holidays Fast Approaching, How Can I Keep From Overspending?, Barbara Rowe
With The Holidays Fast Approaching, How Can I Keep From Overspending?, Barbara Rowe
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Money, Credit, And Banking In Colonial And Postcolonial West Africa, Akanmu G. Adebayo
Money, Credit, And Banking In Colonial And Postcolonial West Africa, Akanmu G. Adebayo
Faculty and Research Publications
Scholarship in African economic history has been dominated by a wave of revisionism lately. The degree of African indebtedness, the imperatives of loan repayment, and the long-term implications of ongoing political and economic changes, all make such a revision exigent indeed. Focusing on the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria, this paper produces new evidence to reinterpret and redefine African precolonial financial institutions. The paper has two main parts. Part 1 focuses on the introduction of cowrie currency into Yorubaland and its impact on social stratification. Part 2 examines ajo, the savings institution, esusu, the rotating savings and credit associations (roscas), and …