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Rural indebtedness
BRIEF BACKGROUND Rural indebtedness is certainly not a new phenomenon. It is in fact concomitant to the appearance of money and probably even paved the way for its creation (Graeber 2011). The phenomenon was widespread in Ancient Near Eastern civilizations …