Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Country
Switzerland
Published
30 January 2017
Pages
201
ISBN
9783319317649

Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

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The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland.

The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and larger increases in buffer livestock during the famine than those districts without a fund. The potentially limited capacity of credit access to mitigate the effects of a major environmental shock on the poorest, most vulnerable borrowers is also a key topic of discussion.

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