MICROCREDITO NO BRASIL:DADOS NACIONAIS EREFLEXÕESQUE VÊM DE VINTE ANOS DE EXPERIÊNCIA

Authors

  • Jaime Mezzera

Abstract

A large proportion of the Brazilian labour force, failing a formal-sector job, invcnrs self-ernployment or becomes a very  small employer. Such capiral-poor "works" typically have low productivity and incomes and have no access toregular banking credir. However, the marginal producriviry af small injections of capital in these microfirms would be huge: microcredir is one rhe besr possible uses of scarce capital. Coincidence between productivity and income distribution imply that rhis policy is perhaps thc only one where rhe USUJI trade-off berween growth and distributionis absent. In 1999 a large microcredit programme would have served 13.7 million potenrial clients and would confront effective demand from 5.8 million microfirrns for a total of some 11.3 billion reais. The total number ofrnicrocredir users beil1g served in Ocrober of2000 was 115 thousand who held 100115for a total of85 million reais.Clcarly, for a large and efficienr coverage, the microcredit system cannot but incorporate the private financial sector. It is equally  clear that the situarion described here cannot be a renable medium term equilibrium, even less soin the long run. Additional ILO research which is almosr ready, bur nor ycr ready for publication, srrongly suggesrsrhar in fact, rhe privare financial sccror is making loans to microentrepreneurs that far exceed those of the microcredirenriries. But that is another story.

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Mezzera, J. (2013). MICROCREDITO NO BRASIL:DADOS NACIONAIS EREFLEXÕESQUE VÊM DE VINTE ANOS DE EXPERIÊNCIA. Revista Da ABET, 2(2). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/abet/article/view/15464