African Indigenous Financial Institutions The Case of Congo and Liberia /

• Main Author: Smith-Omomo, Julia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic development.; Social change.; Africa-Politics and government.; Economic development projects-Finance.; Peace.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Development and Social Change.; African Politics.; Development Finance.; Conflict Studies.; Terrorism and Political Violence.

This book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict. Using Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies, it explores informal financial and business strategies and how these shift during conflict. Through a combination of regression analyses and panel d...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Chapter 1 Introduction
• 2. Chapter 2 Certainty Premiums and Cognitive Loads
• 3. Chapter 3 Monrovia Burning. 4. Chapter 4 Shadows are Weaker
• 5. Chapter 5 What's War got to Do with this?
• 6. Chapter 6 Is Microfinance by Itself Transformative in Post-Conflict Contexts?
• 7. Chapter 7 Social behavioural Changes
• 8. Chapter 8 Stress Limits and Sparse Networks
• 9. Chapter 9 No Easy Answers.