Mikrokredyty: skuteczna pomoc czy złudna idea?

• Authors: Anna Lewicka-Strzałecka

Title variants

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Microcredit: Effective Help or Delusive Idea?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Microcredit has been regarded as one of the most powerful tools to address global poverty. More and more financial means is given to the microcredit movement by international institutions, wealthy philanthropists and ordinary people. Yet, strong criticism of this movement appears in which its assumptions are deflated and its effectiveness is challenged. The aim of the article is to reconstruct the most important theoretical and empirical strands in discussion on microcredit as a means to defeat poverty. In this discussion many arguments from different disciplines are presented and their justness depends on specific economic, cultural and religious conditions. Multitude and variety of these arguments seems to enforce the thesis that the question of microcredit’s effectiveness cannot be universally adjudicated because effectiveness differs according to conditions.

Keywords

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microcredit; poverty; microfinance institutions

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk / Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Prakseologia
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 152
• Pages: 201-221

Contributors

author

Anna Lewicka-Strzałecka

• Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, ul. Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warszawa

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