Consumer finance is thriving in Vietnam. This market has proliferated over the past decade, driven by a favourable demographic and a steady increase in income and consumption among a young and aspirational population. Government and financial actors promote rapid credit liberalization to curb informal credit, especially ‘black credit’. This term refers to moneylending operations, high-interest […]

The historical perspective proves to be fundamental to comprehend modern phenomenon of transactions of persons that were widespread in the Indochinese peninsula a century ago, should we believe historical archives. Indeed, these practices finely described by colonial administrators of Indochina do not seem to have disappeared from contemporary Southeast Asia. Firstly, the paper combines a […]

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