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“Making Money Work: microcredit, commerce and social regulation in Paraguay’s tri-border area” Caroline E Schuster University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
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“Making Money Work: microcredit, commerce and social regulation in Paraguay’s tri-border
area”Caroline E Schuster
University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Puerto Presidente Stroessner, founded 1957
Friendship Bridge between Paraguay and Brazil
Founded in 1985, but only a branch office in Ciudad del Este since 2005
On the bustling commercial street of “Ave. Bernardino Caballero” next to Banco Familiar (a savings and loan), Visión Microfinance, and two credit cooperatives.
Many of the surrounding home appliance and motobike stores sell on credit; monthly quota payments
Fundación Paraguaya
Downtown “microcenter”
“Kilometer 11” outside of downtown
“Kilometer 8” outside of downtown
“Kilometer 7” Don Bosco Neighborhood
Cycles of PaymentThis is an “Informconf” credit report that
shows continuous borrowing from Fundación Paraguaya since 2007 over the
course of 5 loans
