Financial exclusion: a regional investigation

Marco Aurelio Crocco (), Fabiana Santos () and Ana Figueiredo ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2013, vol. 33, issue 3, 505-526

Abstract: Despite the fact that after the second half of the nineties the studies of financial exclusion have gained strength among the studies about poverty and regional and social inequalities, a few studies about this problem had appear in the Brazilian economic literature. The present work aim to contribute to this discussion by doing a regional investigation about the phenomenon of financial exclusion inside Brazil. The main hypothesis of the study is that this phenomenon is not disassociated of the space in which it happens. Thought of the use of proxies two dimensions of financial exclusion had been studied: the access to financial services and the suitability of it. JEL Classification: G2; R1; E44.

Keywords: Financial exclusion; liquidity preference; banks; regional economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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