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Financial Inclusion: A Tale of Two Literatures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2018

Rajiv Prabhakar
Rajiv Prabhakar*
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Department of Economics, The Open University E-mail: rajiv.prabhakar@open.ac.uk
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Abstract

Financial inclusion has arisen as an important social policy agenda over the past twenty years. A scholarly literature has emerged that is very critical of financial inclusion, seeing it as part of the financialisation of the everyday. Often, this theoretical literature makes little reference to how financial inclusion was developing in practice. Conversely, much of the policy literature does not refer to theoretical controversies about financial inclusion. The result is that the theoretical and policy literatures are developing in isolation from one another. This article suggests that it would be much better if there were greater mixing between these different literatures. The scholarly literature can inform the direction of policy and the applied literature can develop more nuanced versions of financialisation.

Keywords

Financial inclusionfinancialisationfinancial capability
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 37 - 50
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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