POLIN, Veronica - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 117 (2009) 1, pp. 135-168
This paper focuses on microcredit, a financial tool adopted in many countries to fight financial exclusion and poverty. By employing microcredit strategies, small loans are granted to low income households who would ‘naturally’ be excluded from the formal financial system. Thus, microcredit...