to kill three birds with one stone: the rotating credit associations of the Papua New Guinea Chinese1
- 1 August 1974
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Ethnologist
- Vol. 1 (3) , 565-584
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1974.1.3.02a00110
Abstract
The author looks at rotating credit associations in the Overseas Chinese community in Papua New Guinea, where complicated financial networks have been built up from simple traditional models, and argues that it is man and not the institution which holds the key to cultural change and economic development; the way in which the economic institution is manipulated by the people determines its adaptability.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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