Microcrédito para microempreendedores do Bairro Granja Portugal: reflexões e efetividade das políticas

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of microcredit and the promotion of entrepreneurship as public policies designed to micro-entrepreneurs in the informal economy. It presents the main characteristics of microcredit programs developed in the neighborhood Portugal Granja, which makes up the urban garden called Great “Bom Jardim”. It focuses on the limits and possibilities of microcredit programs as a means of generating jobs and income to fight poverty from the theoretical context of the compound micro-entrepreneurship and based on sample survey carried out in this neighborhood, higher density area of economic activities informal on the outskirts of Fortaleza.