Exclusão financeira no Brasil: uma análise regional exploratória

Despite the fact that after the second half of the 1990s 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 contributes to the debate by carrying out an investigation of the phenomenon of financial exclusion within Brazilian regions. The main hypothesis of the study is that of financial exclusion is not disassociated from the e space in which it happens. Through of the use of proxies, two dimensions of the financial exclusion has been studied: the access to financial services and the its suitability.