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Author_Caroline E. Schuster
borrowing and lending
business and finance in paraguay
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economics in paraguay
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female entrepreneurs
feminist business
feminization of business
feminization of finance
feminization of lending
financial technology
gender studies
group loans for women
microcredit
microfinance
microloans
pink collar finance
small loans
social collateral
south american commerce
woman owned business
women in business
women in finance
women smugglers
Product details
- ISBN 9780520287044
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Caroline E. Schuster is Lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University.
