Access to financial services in Argentina: a national survey (original) (raw)

Most of the recent studies about financial access use data provided by the “supply side” of financial markets as input for their analysis. Amounts of deposits and credits and numbers of accounts, financial institutions, branches and ATMs, are some of the considered variables. Statistics of this kind are frequently gathered and regularly published by financial regulators. Most of the core indicators of financial access, depth and coverage are produced by combining this information with economic and socio-demographic data from the geographical region under study. The analysis of these indicators leads to general conclusions about how broad, deep and accessible financial markets are. Nevertheless, this sort of information is not sufficient when we attempt to narrow the information gap mentioned in the abstract.