'MICRO-CREDIT' INSTITUTIONS IN THE OLD POLAND (Instytucje 'mikrokredytowe' w dawnej Polsce)

• Authors: Ossowski Janusz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Micro-credit institutions were not invented in XX or XXI century. The idea of microfinance, particularly with regard to micro-credit and mikro-savings, is very old. It expressed itself - across Europe, including Poland - initially in the typically religious and benevolent organizational forms, but it gradually achieved character of modern self-help financial institutions. The article shows some of the organizations operating in Poland (from XV century to the first half of XX century), which provided micro-credit services for poor people and small businesses: funds for indigent within guilds, pious banks, monetary rural funds, cooperative institutions and savings associations. The author indicated the similarities between those kinds of financial and credit organizations with modern types of microfinance institutions.

Keywords

EN

ECONOMIC HISTORY; FINANCIAL COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT; MICRO-CREDIT; MIKRO-SAVINGS; SAVINGS ASSOCIATION

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Spółdzielczy Instytut Naukowy G. Bierecki sp.j.
• Journal: Pieniądze i Więź
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 3(44)
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ossowski Janusz

• Janusz Ossowski, Fundacja na rzecz Polskich Zwiazkow Kredytowych, ul. Wladyslawa IV 22, 81-743 Sopot, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA070324