Microfinance, debt and over-indebtedness [electronic resource] : juggling with money / edited by Isabelle Guâerin, Soláene Morvant-Roux and Magdalena Villarreal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Household over-indebtedness in northern and southern countries : a macro-perspective / Jean-Michel Servet and Hadrien Saiag -- 2. Indebted Mexicans in the Californian mortgage crisis / Magdalena Villarreal -- 3. Debt, over-indebtedness and wellbeing : an exploration / Susan Johnson -- 4. Why do the poor pay more for their credit? : a French case study / Hâeláene Ducourant -- 5. Debt, credit and contractual synchrony in a south-Indian market town / Barbara Harriss-White -- 6. The social meaning of over-indebtedness and creditworthiness in the context of poor rural south Indian households (Tamil Nadu) / Isabelle Guâerin, Marc Roesch, G. Venkatasubramanian and K. S. Santosh Kumar -- 7. Protection and over-indebtedness in rural south India : the case of labour migrants of Andhra / David Picherit -- 8. International migration and over-indebtedness in rural Mexico / Soláene Morvant-Roux -- 9. Multiplying debt and dependence : gender strategies and the social risks of financial inclusion in western Mexico / Francesco Zanotelli -- 10. Does juggling mean struggling? : insights into the financial practices of rural households in Madagascar / Betty Wampfler, Emmanuelle Bouquet and Eliane Ralison -- 11. The social costs of microfinance and over-indebtedness for women / Lourdes Angulo Salazar -- 12. The commercialization of microcredits and local consumerism : examples of over-indebtedness from indigenous Mexico / Agata Hummel -- 13. Mortgaging used sari-skirts, spearheading resistance : narratives from the microfinance repayment standoff in a south Indian town, 2008-2010 / Nithya Joseph -- 14. Conclusion / Isabelle Guâerin, Soláene Morvant-Roux and Magdalena Villarreal.

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