COOPERATIVISMO DE CRÉDITO: ATUAÇÃO DA CRESOL COMO FATOR DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIOECONÔMICO E COMBATE À POBREZA NA REGIÃO SUL/RS

Abstract

The modern world coexist with deep inequalities of various orders. On the one hand, groups thrive through access to material, cultural and political goods, made possible largely by the rapid advancement of technology. On the other hand, are private groups of these goods and relegated to the deep poverty. Among these, is the family farmers, still deeply affected by poverty that characterizes much of the brazilian rural area. Insistent public policies focused on efforts to minimize this framework of inequality, taking as a means of solution, almost always, the criterion of per capita income and groups located. However, recent studies point to the multiplicity of the concept of poverty. Disproving the predominant way of dealing with the problem of poverty and the development of these marginalized groups, there are theses alternatives, among which is the Theory of the Expansion of Capabilities, founded by Amartya Sen, theoretical framework that has guided the research and the preparation of this dissertation. Thus, it was possible to the assumption that the development of human capabilities will allow us to expand/ qualification of its workings, understood as the knowledge that the human being has to possess, because the sought and the acquired so methodical, reflective and free. Considering that the rural reality is made up of different social groups and labor, depicting also the socioeconomic inequalities that exist in Brazil, it was defined stratum of family farming as boundaries for the research and the voice of family farmers as a source of information about this reality. Understanding the cooperative credit as a model of policy that serves both the demands instrumental in the fight against poverty as the policies for the promotion of entrepreneurship and the growth, we decided to move the research for the unveiling of the reality of a credit cooperative. Thus, we performed a case study of the Cooperative of Rural Credit with Supportive Interaction CRESOL, placing it in the Single Cooperative of Boa Vista, City of São Lourenço do Sul / Rio Grande do Sul. The research was justified in reason, also, hat the cooperative solidarity has been recognized as an efficient alternative for economic and social inclusion of people entrepreneurs need. This is mainly due to its methodology be considered appropriate for this public meeting, therefore, to the goal markedly social of cooperative of solidarity lending, or providing job opportunities and income to the farmer, enabling him to better living conditions