Artikel

European microfinance: relevance, efficiency and impact

Microfinance aims at providing basic financial services such as loans, savings and insurance to socially and financially excluded persons and microentrepreneurs. Among these services, microcredit is the most recognizable instrument of microfinance. Microcredit supplies financial means to start up businesses and to finance microenterprises. Microfinance originated in poor countries. In recent years, however, it has also gained some recognition in European countries. This article presents the relevance, efficiency and impact of microfinance policy and its policy instruments with respect to support for microenterprises in the European Union.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe ; ISSN: 2082-6737 ; Volume: 18 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 179-194 ; Warsaw: De Gruyter

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
microfinance
EU policy
social and financial exclusion

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fila, Joanna
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
De Gruyter
(wo)
Warsaw
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.1515/cer-2015-0035
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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Fila, Joanna
  • De Gruyter

Entstanden

  • 2015

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