Microfinance for Self-Employment Activities in the European Urban Areas: Contrasting Crédal in Belgium and Adie in France
Poverty is multidimensional. In its starkest form, the United Nations Development Annual Reports proxy poverty as combined low levels of income, health, and education. Microfinance, on the other hand, addresses directly the income dimension of poverty, and indirectly health and education. Specifically, microfinance is generally perceived as a tool for poverty reduction via self-employment for income-generating activities. Because the vast majority of poor households live in developing countries, poverty in industrialized countries is often neglected. This report focuses on microfinance as a to... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2009 |
Schlagwörter: | Economie / Foreign Aid / F35 / Banks / Other Depository Institutions / Micro Finance Institutions / Mortgages / G21 / Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation / G28 / Economywide Country Studies: Latin America / Caribbean / O54 / Comparative Studies of Countries / O57 / poverty / microfinance / industrialized countries / Europe / social exclusion |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28550353 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/54328 |