Famine and Finance

Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

Autori

• Tyler Beck Goodspeed

Parametri

• 215 pagine
• 8 ore di lettura

• Economia e affari
• Giardinaggio & Coltivazione

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The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland. The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and larger increases in buffer livestock during the famine than those districts without a fund. The potentially limited capacity of credit access to mitigate the effects of a major environmental shock on the poorest, most vulnerable borrowers is also a key topic of discussion.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2018

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