Exclusão financeira no Brasil: uma análise regional exploratória

• Main Authors: Marco Aurelio Crocco, Fabiana Santos, Ana Figueiredo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora 34 2013-09-01
• Series: Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
• Subjects: Financial exclusion; liquidity preference; banks; regional economic
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572013000300008&lng=en&tlng=en

Financial exclusion in Brazil: a regional investigation. 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 aims 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.