Bancos comunitários : impactos do microcrédito e sua influência nas famílias da Região Metropolitana de Pernambuco

Abstract

The lending related to microcredit at Brazil has been a source of floating capital and financing investment to microbusiness leaded by entrepreneurs or low incoming families. Its introduction into poorest families' universe and the shocking over social reality of those families make this initiative a possible solution against poverty. The general subject of this work was to identify the performance of a variant into microcredit, namely Community Banks Methodology, through accompanying collected results of families living at Greater Recife. This work analyses the profile of some areas residents at Greater Recife that has been around two years of Community Banks Methodology. A qualitative analyses was made by a 94 loan takers data survey and linear regression models was estimated to testify hypothesis in community banks influence over microbusiness performance pertaining to these takers. The study concludes that there is a positive contribution of Community Banks Methodology, showing that this maturing process helps the productive activities development and a family health increase. This work has its theoretically basis at non perfect information models, allowing the perception over asymmetric information issues, adversative selection and moral risk impacting the interest rate finds a solution in Community Banks structure to decrease hardness forced by these problems to the credit market.