Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

Type

Book

Authors

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

ISBN 10

3319317644

ISBN 13

9783319317649

Tags

Economic Conditions, Economic History, Agriculture, Systems & Planning, Economics, Business Development

Description

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. - from Amzon

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