Fiery Dragons Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma

Name: Fiery Dragons Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma
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ISBN: 9788776940416

ISBN-10: 8776940411

ISBN-13: 9788776940416

Edition: 2009

Authors: Sean Turnell

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This monograph tells the story of Burma's financial system - of its banks, moneylenders and 'microfinanciers' from colonial times to the present day. It argues that Burma's financial system matters, and that the careful study of this system can tell us something about Burma.

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 412
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Note on Names and Places


Commonly Used Abbreviations


Timeline of Events in Modern Burma



Introduction



The Chettiars



Cooperative Credit to the Rescue?



One Bank, Two Countries: Imaginings of a Central Bank in Colonial Burma



Aristocratic Eagles: The Commercial and Exchange Banks



Reconstruction, a Currency Board and the Union 'Banks' of Burma



Agricultural and Commercial Banking in the Parliamentary Democracy Era



The Road to Ruin: Credit and Banking under Military Rule



'Reform' under the SLORC/SPDC



The Crash



Microfinance in Burma


Afterword


Bibliography


Index