Microfinance in Tanzania: the case of VICOBAs (Village Community Banks) on mount Meru

La microfinance en Tanzanie: le cas des VICOBA (Village Community Banks) sur le mont Meru

Catherine Baroin ()
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Catherine Baroin: TEMPS - Technologie et Ethnologie des Mondes Préhistoriques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In Tanzania, a new way for doing microfinance developed quickly from 2002 onwards. The model was first fostered by the international NGO Care in Niger in 1991 and afterwards spread in several countries, including Tanzania. There, it took the form of Village Community Banks and was named as such: VICOBA. Personal fieldwork in Tanzania, among the Rwa of Mount Meru, gave us the opportunity to observe these VICOBA in 2014 at the local level. By taking an empirical perspective, this article documents the effects of this new form of microfinance at the local level, while at the same time analyzing its strengths and weaknesses. After a brief description of the social structures of the Rwa society (clan organisation, central chieftainship and age groups), we will present the other forms of microfinance available locally. We will then describe the modus operandi of the VICOBA while trying to extract their conditions of success or failure.

Keywords: Tanzania; microfinance; anthropology of development; Rwanda; mount Meru; women; Tanzanie; anthropologie du développement; mont Meru; femmes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Anthropologie et développement, 2019, 50, pp.109-127. ⟨10.4000/anthropodev.846⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/anthropodev.846

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