Famine and Finance Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

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.

Info autore

Tyler Beck Goodspeed is Junior Research Fellow in Economics at St John's College, Oxford University, UK. He was awarded his BA, MA, and PhD from Harvard University, USA, and his MPhil from Cambridge University, UK, where he was a Gates Scholar.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tyler Beck Goodspeed
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2017
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia
• EAN: 9783319317649
• ISBN: 978-3-31-931764-9
• Numero di pagine: 201
• Illustrazioni: XIV, 201 p. 4 illus.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.2 x 21.7 x 1.5 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 375 g
• Serie: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Categorie: B, Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer, Agrarwissenschaften, Agrarwirtschaft und primärer Sektor, Economic history, Economics and Finance, Agricultural science, Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Development economics and emerging economies, Agribusiness and primary industries, Agriculture—Economic aspects