Intricately linked to social exclusion, « financial exclusion » refers to the situation people find themselves in when they have difficulty accessing appropriate financial services from the mainstream financial services market.
Financial exclusion has, over the past decade, increasingly come to the attention of European governments and the European Union, as a dimension to be taken into account in their fight against poverty and social exclusion.
The question of financial exclusion covers a range of issues:
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