Financial exclusion: a new angle to urban poverty in Latin America (English)

Data gathered during studies conducted over the past four years in Mexico City, Mexico (Distrito Federal); Bogota, Colombia, and in several Brazilian cities suggests that in these countries somewhere between 65 and 85 percent of households are "unbanked", those who do not hold any kind of deposit or transaction account in any formal sector financial institution. This note addresses what can be done to bring banking to the unbanked - and vice versa...

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Solo,Tova M.;
Document Date
2005/09/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
34212
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, Nicaragua,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2005/11/10
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Financial exclusion: a new angle to urban poverty in Latin America
Keywords
financial service

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Solo,Tova M..

Financial exclusion: a new angle to urban poverty in Latin America (English). En breve ; no. 77 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/654301468045053514

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