An inquiry into quasi-credit contracts: the role of reciprocal credit and interlinked deals in small-scale fishing communities

In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 23, Heft Jul 87

Abstract

Examines several insurance-motivated credit arrangements, including a hunger insurance mechanism of 'reciprocal credit' and a system of interlinked contracts aimed at insuring against risks in the spheres of labour and marketing relations. The concept of 'triadic' relationships is shown to have special relevance in the case of traditional insurance arrangements aiming at controlling problems of 'moral hazard'. (Abstract amended)