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Title:How to Build in the Germs of Failure: Credit Cooperatives in French Cameroon
Author:Illy, Hans F.
Year:1978
Periodical:Rural Africana
Issue:2
Period:Fall
Pages:56-67
Language:English
Geographic terms:Cameroon
France
Subjects:credit cooperatives
colonialism
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
History and Exploration
Abstract:In this reevaluation of the - now more than a decade demised - system of cooperative credit, one question seems to be prominent: Does there exist any link between the so-called 'traditional solidarity' and the foundations of a Western model of cooperative organization to be introduced to Africa? The author tries to show the humanitarian touch of the last stages of colonialism rested on some fundamental misconception of African society. Sections: Agricultural credit in Africa and Cameroon - Characteristics of the new type of credit (Coopérative de Crédit Mutual, 1950s) - Technical deficiencies - The social determinants of failure. Notes, ref., tab.
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