 | Michael Hechter - 1988 - 236 pages
...credit associations are made up of individuals who agree to make regular contributions to a fund that is given, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation (Ardener 1962: 201). They are among the most elementary — and short lived — of all groups; many... | |
 | 1994 - 130 pages
...typical Ghanaian susu club consists of members who agree to make regular contributions to a fund which is given, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation" (Ardener 1964). The individual susu collector — sometimes described as a "mobile banker" — visits... | |
 | Thomas D. Boston - 1997 - 454 pages
...association formed upon a core of participants who agree to make regular contributions to a fund which is given, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation." 60 See, Ivan H. Light, Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese,... | |
 | William F. Fisher - 2001 - 320 pages
...consists of a limited set of voluntar)' participants who make regular contributions to a fund that is given, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation. 22 They are distinguished from other mutual-help systems by the criteria of regular rotation and payment.... | |
 | Yaa P. A. Oppong - 286 pages
...association formed upon a core of participants who agree to make regular contributions to a fund which is given. in whole or in part. to each contributor in rotation." In Ghana such associations are known as "susu" and are prevalent among market women. laborers. and... | |
 | Christopher Uhl - 2003 - 414 pages
...They come into being when a small group of people agree to make regular contributions to a fund that is given, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation. In a typical rotating credit association, each member (of, say, twenty) might contribute a monthly... | |
 | Ambe J. Njoh - 2006 - 244 pages
...association formed upon a core of participants who agree to make regular contributions to a fund which is given, in whole or in part to each contributor in rotation. Ardener 's definition, appears to be at the very general level, and therefore seeks to account for... | |
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Cameroon characterizes the rotating credit association in the following terms: [It is] an association formed upon a core of participants who agree to make regular contributions to a fund which is given, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation. 