Community development banks (CDB): a bibliometric analysis of the first 2 decades of scientific production

Paulo Mourão and Wiliam Retamiro ()
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Wiliam Retamiro: Universidade Federal de São Carlos-UFSCAR Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2021, vol. 23, issue 1, No 23, 477-493

Abstract: Abstract This paper deals with a bibliometric analysis of 78 publications identified by the main academic search engines as concerning the topic of community development banks (CDB). The CDB phenomenon takes 2 decades, and some cases—such as the Brazilian Banco Palmas—have gained special attention. We tested two major hypotheses: (1) although the Brazilian origin of Banco Palmas, the socioeconomic development of the last 2 decades enlarged the interest of the topic to researchers from different nationalities; and (2) the collected researches focus on the community development and sustainability. The analysis made it possible to identify that in these 20 years, a great diversity of universities and nationalities of researchers have been associated with the focus of this research; in addition, the content analysis carried out on the titles and abstracts reinforces the connection of the CDB to the social economy, to the surrounding communities, and to microcredit.

Keywords: Community development banks; Social currencies; Social economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G23 N16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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