Introduction / Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux and Magdalena Villarreal -- Household over-indebtedness in northern and southern countries : a macro-perspective / Jean-Michel Servet and Hadrien Saiag -- Indebted Mexicans in the Californian mortgage crisis / Magdalena Villarreal -- Debt, over-indebtedness and wellbeing : an exploration / Susan Johnson -- Why do the poor pay more for their credit? : a French case study / Hélène Ducourant -- Debt, credit and contractual synchrony in a south-Indian market town / Barbara Harriss-White -- The social meaning of over-indebtedness and creditworthiness in the context of poor rural south Indian households (Tamil Nadu) / Isabelle Guérin, Marc Roesch, G. Venkatasubramanian and K. S. Santosh Kumar -- Protection and over-indebtedness in rural south India : the case of labour migrants of Andhra / Pradesh Picherit David -- International migration and over-indebtedness in rural Mexico / Solène Morvant-Roux -- Multiplying debt and dependence : gender strategies and the social risks of financial inclusion in western Mexico / Francesco Zanotelli -- Does juggling mean struggling? : insights into the financial practices of rural households in Madagascar / Betty Wampfler, Emmanuelle Bouquet and Eliane Ralison -- The social costs of microfinance and over-indebtedness for women / Lourdes Angulo Salazar -- The commercialization of microcredits and local consumerism : examples of over-indebtedness from indigenous Mexico / Agata Hummel -- Mortgaging used sari-skirts, spear-heading resistance : narratives from the microfinance repayment standoff in a south Indian town, 2008-2010 / Nithya Joseph -- Conclusion / Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux and Magdalena Villarreal.