The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland.

The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and larger increases in buffer livestock during the famine than those districts without a fund. The potentially limited capacity of credit access to mitigate the effects of a major environmental shock on the poorest, most vulnerable borrowers is also a key topic of discussion.

Great Famine of Ireland
Irish agricultural economy
Adjustments in land use
Capital markets
Irish loan funds
Microfinance credit

• Introduction to Famine and Finance

• Historical Overview of Famines

• Economic Causes of Famine

• Financial Systems and Food Security

• Role of Government Policies in Famine Prevention

• International Aid and Financial Support

• Market Dynamics and Food Prices

• Agricultural Finance and Investment

• Financial Mechanisms for Risk Management

• Impact of Famine on Economic Development

• Case Studies of Financial Responses to Famine

• Innovations in Financing Food Security

• Challenges in Financing Famine Relief

• Future Directions in Famine Prevention and Finance

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Book Title
Famine and Finance

Book Subtitle
Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

Authors
Tyler Beck Goodspeed

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31765-6

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Cham

eBook Packages
Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

Copyright Information
The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

Hardcover ISBN
978-3-319-31764-9
Published: 30 January 2017

Softcover ISBN
978-3-319-81113-0
Published: 17 July 2018

eBook ISBN
978-3-319-31765-6
Published: 20 January 2017

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XIV, 201

Number of Illustrations
4 b/w illustrations

Topics
Economic History, Agricultural Economics, Development Economics