
Lime and Other Alternative Cements
Neville Hill, Stafford Holmes, David Mather
Published: 1992
Pages: 328
eBook: 9781780442631
Paperback: 9781853391781
Preface 7 | |||
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Acknowledgements 8 | |||
Introduction 9 | |||
1 Credit interventions: context and history 15 | |||
Macroeconomy and policy environment | |||
Experience with rural credit schemes | |||
Summary | |||
2 Women's work and income 23 | |||
Household based production | |||
Control over income | |||
Reproductive work | |||
The importance of self-employment | |||
Characteristics of women's enterprises | |||
Dynamics and development patterns of women's enterprises | |||
Summary | |||
3 Women and finance 33 | |||
Savings | |||
Decision making and place in production | |||
Possibilities, problems and consequences of finance | |||
Summary | |||
4 Informal finance 43 | |||
Informal finance sources | |||
Self-finance and loans from relatives and friends | |||
Rotating and non-rotating funds | |||
Moneylenders and pawnbrokers | |||
Wholesale traders and shopkeepers | |||
Sharecropping arrangements | |||
Summary | |||
5 Development programmes and 'semi-formal' 53 | |||
financial institutions | |||
Credit within multiple service programmes | |||
Income generating projects for women | |||
Rotating and revolving funds | |||
Savings and credit unions and cooperatives | |||
Peoples' banks | |||
Summary | |||
6 Women and the formal financial system 69 | |||
Formal financial institutions and poor women | |||
Barriers and possible solutions: a challenge to banks | |||
Risk reduction | |||
Transaction costs and incentives to banks | |||
Long-term access to and sustainability of financial services | |||
The performance of financial institutions | |||
Summary | |||
Epilogue 87 | |||
Appendix 1: Gender 91 | |||
Appendix 2: Symposium participants 93 | |||
Appendix 3: Symposium papers 95 | |||
Bibliography 97 | |||
6 FINANCING |
Stafford Holmes Stafford Holmes is a United Kingdom based professional architect not only with great enthusiasm for lime but also with much knowledge and experience. He has made inputs into projects in many different countries and has been involved with various groups promoting the use of lime.
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