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“Earning among Friends”: Business Practices and Creed among Petty Traders in Tanzania

by Sayaka Ogawa Abstract This paper analyzes how petty street traders called Machinga have created unique credit transactions in response to the political and socio-economical transformation after the economic liberalization of Tanzania. The credit transaction described in this paper is called Mali Kauli and is conducted by middlemen and micro-scale retailers. In this paper, I will discuss how newly […]