A new Homepage for Informal Credit<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Dear folks:

I'd like to share with all of you a web document
that I've been writing on informal credit (in a very broad
sense of the term). Both urban and rural markets are covered
including bibliographies, documents, and links to other pages
(info on com-dev-bnk is also present!).

I have been learning a lot from cdb-l about credit and
community development, so this is pay-back time for me!

The web address is:

http://titsoc.soc.titech.ac.jp/titso...icm/index.html

Comments and suggestions are, of course, welcome.....
If anyone would like to participate by contributing to the
list of documents, more than welcome!

Hari

hari@soc.titech.ac.jp
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At 12:53 4/26/95 +0900, Hari SRINIVAS wrote:
>Dear folks:
>
>I'd like to share with all of you a web document
>that I've been writing on informal credit (in a very broad
>sense of the term). Both urban and rural markets are covered
>including bibliographies, documents, and links to other pages
>(info on com-dev-bnk is also present!).
>
>The web address is:
>
>http://titsoc.soc.titech.ac.jp/titso...icm/index.html
>

Congratulations, Hari, on a very well constructed site. I don't know enough
of your field to know if the information is as good as it looks, but it
covered almost everything I had previously come across, and much more besides.

Almost everything - but perhaps not quite. Your definition of "informal
credit" seems to me broad enough to include material on community
currencies, particularly those that are developed as systems of mutual
credit between the participants.

There are now probably 600 such local currency systems in operation around
the world, almost all in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

In their more developed formulation, these initiatives are designed to
generate the core assets for a community banking function. Over the next
year, we hope (and expect) that some of these projects will become
successful enough to cause widespread emulation.

Please visit our pages (which are not so well constructed as yours), and let
us know whether you feel this concept could properly be linked to your site,
and vice versa,

yours,



Michael Linton Landsman Community Services Ltd
lcs@mars.ark.com 1 604 338 0213
LETSystems http://www.u-net.com/gmlets
m o n e y t h a t a l w a y s c o m e s h o m e


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