Microcredit : Count On Me
Behind this word looking at first sight like some advert for consumption credit, may hide one of the economic hopes of the 21st century.
So many changes have taken place over the past 25 years, since the fall of the Berlin wall and the decline of communism ! Globalisation, world economy, “altermondialisation “ (for an alternative type of globalisation) : these are new words and concepts proving the intensity of the search and the need for new ideas to guide the world.
Type (Documentaire / Documentaire fiction / Série documentaire)Documentary Genre en anglaisSociety & EconomyWritten byMichel Raffoul, Pierre BourgeoisDirected by Pierre BourgeoisSupported by CNC, Pury Pictet Turrettini & Cie SADistributed by Arte France DistributionYear2007Duration52min
Situation of the world economy. Half the world population lives on less than two dollars a day. Everybody agrees to say that things cannot go on like this any longer without endangering the world stability in the short term.
The ideas. Muhammad Yunus, Hernando de Soto, Maria Nowak work as councillors of the current presidents of the world’s biggest countries, to whom they suggest new and sometimes destabilising ideas.
More and more sought after, these economic thinkers answer the obsessive question of our times: How integrate 50 % of the world population in the market economy and thus, pull them out of poverty ?
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