Microcredit Meltdown: The Rise and Fall of South Sudan's Post-conflict Microcredit Sector

Established to help people jumpstart their lives and economy after over a half century of conflict, the South Sudanese microcredit sector collapsed in 2012, six years after its takeoff, to the detriment of some 80,000 participants. Microcredit Meltdown is an account of the ambitious launch and premature downfall of the Southern Sudanese microcredit industry.



Through a mixed methods ethnographic approach, the book charts the state and non-state actors that embarked upon economic development a...