Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World 1750-1960
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781349229161 |
| Open Library | OL19210141W |
| Total publications | 12 |
| Coverage period | 1993 - 1993 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 15 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
Part 1 Indigenous bankers before the Western impact: urban credit and market economy in Western India c1750-1850, G.D. Sharma and Peter Robb both a borrower and a lender be - from village money-lender to rural banker in proto-industrial Japan, Ronald P. Toby. Part 2 Opportunities and risks under the Western impact: towards a history of indigenous credit markets in Western Africa c1800-1960, Gareth Austin banking, credit and capital in colonial Natal c1850-1910, Robert Morrell et al agricultural credit in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina 1890-1963, Jeremy Adelman. Part 3 Regional suppliers of credit: British colonial policy and agricultural credit in Zanzibar 1890-1963, Chizuko Tominaga Chettiar capital and South-East Asian credit networks in the inter-war period, Rajeswary Brown capital markets, sharecropping and contestability - Singapore Chinese in the inter-war British Malayan estate rubber and pineapple industries, W.G. Huff
From Village Moneylender to Rural Banker
Well before the opening of Japan’s ports to unlimited foreign trade and the advent of the Meiji industrialisation, Japan had entered an ‘age of protoindustrialisation’ in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A money economy was so far advanced that in some regions even rural households derived half or more of their income from wage labour, cottage industry, and other non-agricultural pursuits. Indeed, a money-and-market orientation…
Capital Markets, Sharecropping and Contestability
The development literature has often drawn attention to two barriers to economic development: an absence of assured property rights and capital market imperfections. The first militates against long-term investment, especially among immigrant and minority groups who may be singled out for discrimination. Nothing is more obvious or immobile than land and fixed capital: uncertain property rights or a risk of confiscation naturally directs preferenc…
Agricultural Credit in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1914
In 1879, for the first time, Argentina exported more wheat that it imported. A generation later the Republic figured among the top five exporters of wheat in the world, and wheat had become its premier earner of foreign exchange. The expansion was by any account remarkable. With the expulsion of the Amerindians from the Pampa Humeda in the late 1870s, hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable and highly fertile land were suddenly made available…
Urban Credit and the Market Economy in Western India, c.1750-1850
Under the Mughals, particularly during the seventeenth century, commercial credit was an essential part of the economy. The urban based financiers or bankers employed their capital on credit, to provide payments of tribute or land revenue, to meet the financial requirements of the army or nobility, and to transfer funds from one place to another. Hence all money transactions were highly dependent on urban credit facilities. During most of the eig…
Intermediaries and Change in Eighteenthcentury Gujarat
Professor G. D. Sharma died suddenly before the final preparation of this volume, sadly depriving us of his profound knowledge of unfamiliar reaches of Indian economic history. He had written to Kaoru Sugihara in November 1989 expressing gratitude for the suggestions made on the first draft of his paper (sentiments repeated in a footnote to the revised version), but also saying that, having made many changes, he now wanted to pass on any further …
Chettiar Capital and Southeast Asian Credit Networks in the Interwar Period
This essay discusses the growth of the Chettiar moneylending caste of South India as regional suppliers of credit in Southeast Asia in the interwar period, and its changing relationships with local, Western and Chinese entrepreneurs. The contribution of the Chettiars to the expansion of export production in Southeast Asia from the middle of the nineteenth century has been well recognised. For example, Michael Adas and Lim Teck Ghee demonstrate th…
Banking, Credit and Capital in Colonial Natal, c.1850-1910
In 1843 Natal, on the south east coast of Africa, became a British colony after a contest between Boer and British forces which had culminated in the battle of Congella. The colony was not particularly wealthy; its resources being made up primarily of wild game and cattle, the latter chiefly in the possession of the yet unsubjugated Africans of the area. The Zulu state was still intact and abutted the northern borders of the colony. One of the ea…
British Colonial Policy and Agricultural Credit in Zanzibar, 1890-1963
This paper challenges the consensus in the existing literature that indebtedness in the agricultural sector of the Zanzibar economy put a brake on the development of the productive forces. A detailed analysis of the nature and role of credit in the rural sector demonstrates that the operations of moneylenders were often a precious and necessary economic resource, rather than an impediment to growth. The determinants of colonial policy on rural in…
Indigenous Credit Institutions in West Africa, c.1750-c.1960
Even by ‘Third World’ standards, West Africa may appear as one of the most extreme cases of the domination of local credit markets by outside suppliers, during the colonial period and even before. Much has been written about European sources of credit in the import-export trade of the region, from the ‘trust system’ of the precolonial coast to the advances given on cash crops in colonial times. By contrast, two celebrated monographs by economic a…
Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World 1750-1960
Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750-1960
This book explores an important but little researched aspect of the emergence of the world economy, and of the history of regional and local economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America; the historical development of sources of credit based in the Third World itself, rather than in the European and North American metropoles of the world economy. The existing literature has noted a variety of activities by moneylenders and local and regional banker…
Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750–1960
Part 1 Indigenous bankers before the Western impact: urban credit and market economy in Western India c1750-1850, G.D. Sharma and Peter Robb both a borrower and a lender be - from village money-lender to rural banker in proto-industrial Japan, Ronald P. Toby. Part 2 Opportunities and risks under the Western impact: towards a history of indigenous credit markets in Western Africa c1800-1960, Gareth Austin banking, credit and capital in colonial Na…
Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750–1960
Part 1 Indigenous bankers before the Western impact: urban credit and market economy in Western India c1750-1850, G.D. Sharma and Peter Robb both a borrower and a lender be - from village money-lender to rural banker in proto-industrial Japan, Ronald P. Toby. Part 2 Opportunities and risks under the Western impact: towards a history of indigenous credit markets in Western Africa c1800-1960, Gareth Austin banking, credit and capital in colonial Na…
From Village Moneylender to Rural Banker
Well before the opening of Japan’s ports to unlimited foreign trade and the advent of the Meiji industrialisation, Japan had entered an ‘age of protoindustrialisation’ in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A money economy was so far advanced that in some regions even rural households derived half or more of their income from wage labour, cottage industry, and other non-agricultural pursuits. Indeed, a money-and-market orientation…
Capital Markets, Sharecropping and Contestability
The development literature has often drawn attention to two barriers to economic development: an absence of assured property rights and capital market imperfections. The first militates against long-term investment, especially among immigrant and minority groups who may be singled out for discrimination. Nothing is more obvious or immobile than land and fixed capital: uncertain property rights or a risk of confiscation naturally directs preferenc…
Agricultural Credit in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1914
In 1879, for the first time, Argentina exported more wheat that it imported. A generation later the Republic figured among the top five exporters of wheat in the world, and wheat had become its premier earner of foreign exchange. The expansion was by any account remarkable. With the expulsion of the Amerindians from the Pampa Humeda in the late 1870s, hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable and highly fertile land were suddenly made available…
Urban Credit and the Market Economy in Western India, c.1750-1850
Under the Mughals, particularly during the seventeenth century, commercial credit was an essential part of the economy. The urban based financiers or bankers employed their capital on credit, to provide payments of tribute or land revenue, to meet the financial requirements of the army or nobility, and to transfer funds from one place to another. Hence all money transactions were highly dependent on urban credit facilities. During most of the eig…
Intermediaries and Change in Eighteenthcentury Gujarat
Professor G. D. Sharma died suddenly before the final preparation of this volume, sadly depriving us of his profound knowledge of unfamiliar reaches of Indian economic history. He had written to Kaoru Sugihara in November 1989 expressing gratitude for the suggestions made on the first draft of his paper (sentiments repeated in a footnote to the revised version), but also saying that, having made many changes, he now wanted to pass on any further …
Chettiar Capital and Southeast Asian Credit Networks in the Interwar Period
This essay discusses the growth of the Chettiar moneylending caste of South India as regional suppliers of credit in Southeast Asia in the interwar period, and its changing relationships with local, Western and Chinese entrepreneurs. The contribution of the Chettiars to the expansion of export production in Southeast Asia from the middle of the nineteenth century has been well recognised. For example, Michael Adas and Lim Teck Ghee demonstrate th…
Banking, Credit and Capital in Colonial Natal, c.1850-1910
In 1843 Natal, on the south east coast of Africa, became a British colony after a contest between Boer and British forces which had culminated in the battle of Congella. The colony was not particularly wealthy; its resources being made up primarily of wild game and cattle, the latter chiefly in the possession of the yet unsubjugated Africans of the area. The Zulu state was still intact and abutted the northern borders of the colony. One of the ea…
British Colonial Policy and Agricultural Credit in Zanzibar, 1890-1963
This paper challenges the consensus in the existing literature that indebtedness in the agricultural sector of the Zanzibar economy put a brake on the development of the productive forces. A detailed analysis of the nature and role of credit in the rural sector demonstrates that the operations of moneylenders were often a precious and necessary economic resource, rather than an impediment to growth. The determinants of colonial policy on rural in…
Indigenous Credit Institutions in West Africa, c.1750-c.1960
Even by ‘Third World’ standards, West Africa may appear as one of the most extreme cases of the domination of local credit markets by outside suppliers, during the colonial period and even before. Much has been written about European sources of credit in the import-export trade of the region, from the ‘trust system’ of the precolonial coast to the advances given on cash crops in colonial times. By contrast, two celebrated monographs by economic a…
Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World 1750-1960
Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750-1960
This book explores an important but little researched aspect of the emergence of the world economy, and of the history of regional and local economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America; the historical development of sources of credit based in the Third World itself, rather than in the European and North American metropoles of the world economy. The existing literature has noted a variety of activities by moneylenders and local and regional banker…
Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750–1960
Part 1 Indigenous bankers before the Western impact: urban credit and market economy in Western India c1750-1850, G.D. Sharma and Peter Robb both a borrower and a lender be - from village money-lender to rural banker in proto-industrial Japan, Ronald P. Toby. Part 2 Opportunities and risks under the Western impact: towards a history of indigenous credit markets in Western Africa c1800-1960, Gareth Austin banking, credit and capital in colonial Na…