Prawo do kredytu jako prawo człowieka

• Authors: Anna Lewicka-Strzałecka

Title variants

EN

Access to Credit as a Human Right

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The experience of Grameen Bank shows that credit proved to be a very effective instrument to overcoming poverty and a central institution to create social and economic development. M. Yunus the founder of the bank and Peace Nobel Prize Laureate strongly demands to establish access to credit as a human right. The paper presents arguments both supporting and opposing this idea.

Keywords

EN

credit; human right; Grameen Bank; goal-right

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk / Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Prakseologia
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 150
• Pages: 289-300

Contributors

author

Anna Lewicka-Strzałecka

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

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