PIRAPIRÊ - SOCIAL MONEY

Guacira Quirino Miranda

PIRAPIRÊ – SOCIAL MONEYThis presentation invites you to know about the

brazilian social money Pirapirê.

The intention is to add people of all parts of the

world, to know a little more about the solidarity-

based economy, and participate in discussions

about an economy more fair and solidary.

Thank you for your attention!

SOLIDARY ECONOMY

Also called Social Economy.

The solidarity-based ventures emerged as responses to crisis in

enterprises, unemployment and social exclusion, which are

consequences of the dominant capitalism we live on these days.

The capitalist economy generates exclusion and competitiveness,

and the Social Economy believes in a society where predominates

equality and opportunity for all.

This economy is made and managed by the workers.

SOLIDARITY-BASED ECONOMY

FRANÇA-FILHO (2006), highlights the dimensions of the

solidarity-based economy: community and public, focused

on the generation of employment and income, concerned

about local development, which the action in the public

spaces and a collective democratic construction, as the

Government does not meet the gaps left by the market.

THE SOLIDARITY-BASED ECONOMY The solidarity-based economy has the following characteristics:

of donation and reciprocity;

is a response to the crisis in the fordist paradigm and the state of

social welfare;

is a hybrid formed by reciprocal activities of volunteers, market

activities and activities financed by government subsidies;

is an attempt to link market economies, non-market economies

and non monetary economies (exchange);

Involves services, or supportive services, which before were only

on the sphere of home economies.

SOLIDARITY-BASED ECONOMYPrinciples of economic behavior in the solidarity-based economy:

the home made form of production;

the reciprocity, which governs the exchange to create or

strengthen social exchanges and transfers of products and

services;

the redistibution, the market for the exchange of products, goods

and services;

the donation, the mutual support, the ties of solidarity, the build

together. The products of donation are the same produced by the

market, the difference is that they solidarity relations.

SOLIDARITY-BASED ECONOMY

The traditional economy use the principles of profitability and

usefulness.

The solidarity-based economy search the principles of mutual

solidarity, freedom and equality to live together.

SOCIAL MONEY

The social money rises, on the solidatity-based economy, in a

similar way to the creation of the use of the money

(currency). It is an alternative to barter, on the trade of the

production of the work developed in solidary ventures.

SOCIAL MONEY

The social money is considered a social tool for local

development: designed to benefit the labour market of the

groups participating in the economy of the town, its use is

restricted to guarantee the redistribution of resources in

the sphere of the community. The increase in the amount of

social money corresponds to the increase of the

transactions conducted by participants of the local

economy.

SOCIAL MONEY

One of the difficulties of the business of the solidarity-

based economy is the marketing or sale of theirs products.

To facilitate the business the solidarity-based economy

fairs were created. These fairs are basically spaces

intended for the integration and linkages between

enterprises, as well as the supply of products made by

entrepreneurs. In these fairs emerged the first social

money.

PirapirêThe social money

created by Pirê Bank,

of Dourados, state

of Mato Grosso do

sul, Brazil.

1 Pirapirê

The name Pirapirê came

from the indian

brazilian language

named Guarani.

In Guarani language,

Pirapirê means

“fish scale”.

The local community

chooses a name that is

meaningful to them.

Solidarity shop – Dourados MS – BrazilSource: http://www.bancopire.org/

SOCIAL MONEY

The social money will still have to face many challenges:

Seek their institutionalization (federal, state and local laws).

Greater disclosure to acquire more credibility.

Compatibility with monetary policy and with the

requirement for soundness of the financial market.

Mechanisms for monitoring and surveillance.

Feasibility economic-financial (costs and riscs).