Banking and Microfinance in Brazil

Title

Banking and Microfinance in Brazil

Project Year

2010

Region

Latin America and the Caribbean

Country

Brazil

Project Description

This research focuses on new policies and programs in Brazil such as family grants, popular banking and credit initiatives, correspondent and mobile banking, microcredit, credit cooperatives and credit guarantee programs since price stability and transition from military rule in the 1990s. Interviews with bank correspondent institutions and clients in poor areas of Sao Paulo city will expand research underway at the CFGV-EAESP Center for Studies in Microfinance and inform articles to be submitted to scholarly journals.

Researcher(s)

Kurt von Mettenheim, Lauro Gonzalez, Eduardo Diniz

About the Researcher(s)

Dr. Kurt von Mettenheim is Professor of Political Sociology, Chair of the Social and Legal Sciences Department, and Faculty Member in the Doctoral Program in Public Administration and Government at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Sao Paulo Business School (Escola de Administratoro de Empresas de Sao Paulo, Funded o Getulio Vargas, FGV-EASP). Formerly University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow, St. Cross College, he has taught at Columbia University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Universidade de Sao Paulo, and Universidade de Brasilia. Dr. Mettenheim is author of The Brazilian Voter: mass politics in democratic transition, 1974 ? 1986 (1995), editor of Government Banking: New Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion from Europe and South America (2008) with Maria Antonieta Del Tedesco Lins, Presidential institutions and democratic politics: comparing regional and national contexts (1997) and, with James Malloy, Deepening democracy in Latin America (1998). Dr. Mettenheim is currently completing two book manuscripts, Federal Government Banking in Brazil and Financial Statecraft in Brazil. He was founding editor of the FGV Brazil Forecast - GVprev?, former Brazil desk officer for Multinational Strategies Inc., and is currently senior consultant on Brazil at the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils.

Researcher 2

Lauro Gonzalez holds a PhD in Economics from FGV-EESP. He was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in 2004 and a fellow of the Microfinance Management Institute (MFMI) in 2005. Currently, he is Professor of Finance at FGV-EAESP and head of the Center for Microfinance Studies at the same institution. He has been lecturing and presenting research in Brazil and other countries, such as China (University of Beijing, 2008 and 2009) and the United States (Stanford University, 2008).

Researcher 3

Professor Eduardo Diniz holds a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering (EESC/USP), and a Master's and a doctorate in Business Administration (FGV-EAESP). He was a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley (1996-1998) and at HEC Montreal (2007). He served in the Systems Management Department at FDE - Funda??o para o Desenvolvimento da Educa??o, no Governo do Estado de Sao Paulo (1995). He has been a professor at FGV-EAESP since 1999 where he was the coordinator in several research projects. He has articles on technology applied to banking business and electronic government published in Brazil and abroad. At present he is the chief editor of Revista de Administrator??o de Empress (RAE) and executivo.

Citation

“Banking and Microfinance in Brazil,” Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) Research Projects, accessed March 29, 2024, https://imtfiresearch.omeka.net/items/show/6496.

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