Introduction: a golden pendulum
Context for credit : a setting at the source of the Nile
Three faces of the loan : charity, usury
and fantasy
Plans and dreams : an integrated approach on paper
Lenders and lineages : nepotism as loyalty
Untying a package deal : borrowing green revolution technology
Debts and dodges : the moral and the hazard in repayment
In a white elephant's shadow : reversal and repetition
Wildfire : tobacco contract farming
Self-help and the underground : individual incentive and the group guarantee
Self-help with help : banking between charity and usury
Crossing back : rethinking credit between cultures.