This study uses original survey data from six villages in Orissa, India to identify and analyse the system of guarantee prevalent in informal sector markets with diverse socio-economic conditions. The survey data reveal that the system of guarantee available to the lenders is much more complex...

Book Review of Rahman, Atiur, Peasants and Classes: A Study in Differentiation in Bangladesh, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1990

This paper examines the nature and roles of personalized control exercised by the rural moneylender over a class of poor borrowers to extract as much as possible in the form of high interest charges and income from undervalued and/or forfeited collaterals. Based on primary survey data from rural...