Financial exclusion: a regional investigation

Vol. 33 No. 3 (2013)

Jul-Sep / 2013
Published July 1, 2013
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How to Cite

Crocco, Marco Aurelio, Fabiana Santos, and Ana Figueiredo. 2013. “Financial Exclusion: A Regional Investigation”. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 33 (3):505-26. https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/325.

Financial exclusion: a regional investigation

Marco Aurelio Crocco
Professor Titular do Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional, Cedeplar- -FACE-UFMG.
Fabiana Santos
Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional- -CEDEPLAR.
Ana Figueiredo
Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais.
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 33 No. 3 (2013), Jul-Sep / 2013, Pages 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