Financial Exclusion: Concept, Causes Consequences A Tri-Dimensional Literature Analysis

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FINANCIAL EXCLUSION: CONCEPT, CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES

A TRI-DIMENSIONAL LITERATURE ANALYSIS
Niranjan Shetty23 Dr. Prakash Pinto24
ABSTRACT
This research paper has an objective to analyze the available literature on financial exclusion, alternatively referred to as
financial inclusion as well. It is to understand and conceptualize the meaning, nature, causes and consequences of financial
exclusion worldwide through a mixture of past empirical studies. Decision makers can use the literature discussed in this
paper to draw appropriate implications for policy formulation. Bankers can take insights from the literature and redesign their
strategies to have greater financial inclusion or to lower financial exclusion. In addition, paper also serves the purpose of
researchers as it provides adequate studies at a single-point on financial exclusion. It covers the literature over a period of two
and half decades and it includes manifold studies conducted in the major countries of the world. It also covers the pioneer
studies undertaken by leading researchers like Kempson, Leyshon, Thrift and Whyley and several other recent studies. Paper
unleashes the diversity in conceiving the concept of financial exclusion, its causes and consequences across the nations. Each
study unfolds different experience and adds fresh and varied dimension to financial exclusion. The vulnerable sections of the
society, financial service providers and the governments have to borrow heavily from this paper for better understanding of
problems involved in financial exclusion for finding suitable solutions through collective efforts of all, so that the probability
of people being excluded from financial services is eliminated. However, study does not go ahead to compare results based on
empirical evidences of past studies among various countries.
KEYWORDS
Financial Exclusion/Inclusion, Financial Services/Products, Financial System, Service Providers etc.

INTRODUCTION
Several factors contribute for sluggish economic growth and overall development of the citizens in a country. Such factors include
poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, etc. One of the most important talked about topics in the present scenario world over is
financial exclusion or financial inclusion. To achieve inclusive growth, financial inclusion is a pre-requisite. Around the world,
fiscal and monetary authorities realized that the financial exclusion is one of the most hindering factors to achieve overall
economic growth. Hence, policy formulators have to concentrate either to completely remove financial exclusion or to achieve
100 percent financial inclusion. The key step in this regard is to understand the concept, nature, causes and consequences of
financial exclusion so that appropriate policy decisions can be taken to minimize the extent of financial exclusion or to increase
financial inclusion. This research paper is an attempt to analyze financial exclusion based on the available literature world over
and provide a one-short, ready-made and comprehensive research information on financial exclusion. Research analyses in detail
the concept, nature, causes and consequences of financial exclusion based on the literature across the nations of the world. Studies
discussed in this paper certify that financial exclusion is well permeated and deep-rooted problem in every country irrespective of
whether they are developing or developed.
FINANCIAL EXCLUSION/INCLUSION - AROUND THE CONCEPT
European policy discussions have popularly coined the word social exclusion in the earlier periods than the term financial
exclusion. However, even in United Kingdom, the term social exclusion gained importance in recent years. Gradually the term
social exclusion permeated to other countries in the world. Social exclusion is broad concept that is used to represent the
collective problems of people who are suffering from a several combination of related problems such as poor skills, low incomes,
unemployment, poor housing, high crime environments, family breakdown, health, and poverty (http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/seu/index/faqs.html, 2000). Therefore, social exclusion is broader term than the terms used in the earlier debates such
as poverty, disadvantage and deprivation and the term financial inclusion used in the recent debates. The dimensions of social
exclusion cited above are interconnected to each other, the intensity of one problem increase the possibility of the other problems
(Rogaly et al., 1999). Although the analyses between authors vary to some extent, three core elements of social exclusion are
generally recognized:
The employment status of the people is such that it is of low income such as insufficient opportunities for jobs and very
low levels of facilities among those people who does not have work yet.
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Lecturer, Department of Professional Studies, College of Banking and Financial Studies, Sultanate of Oman,
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Professor and Dean, Department of Business Administration, St. Joseph Engineering College, Karnataka, India,
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Access to basic requirements such as vocational training, health care, education and financial services is absolutely
absent or miserable.
Unsatisfactory environmental conditions such as deprived neighborhoods, poor housing, hard family life and
circumstances are at the core of social exclusion.
The factors mentioned above individually or collectively lead to social exclusion. The government of United Kingdom describes
the interconnectedness of social exclusion elements as cycle of disadvantage. The consequences of these factors remain
throughout the life of the people and are passed from one generation to another (Department of Social Services, 1999). Social
exclusion analysis and developments that took place prior to the early deliberations in the area of financial exclusion laid attention
mainly on issues of access to services and banking outlets in specific based on geographical locations (Leyshon and Thrift 1993,
1994, 1995). During 1990s, several research works were undertaken relating to the difficulties involved in accessing financial
services. The important problems identified in those research works include non-access to modern payment instruments and
several other banking services such as insurance, consumer credit etc.
There were also concerns that people lacked savings of any nature. The geographers who were concerned about restricted physical
access to banking services due to bank branch closures, for the first time coined the term financial exclusion in 1993 (Leyshon and
Thrift, 1993). Measuring of financial inclusion is difficult to perceive and it is commonly defined in terms of financial exclusion
from the gamut of financial system of a country or geographical territory. Financial exclusion is broadly interpreted as the
inability to provide required financial services in an appropriate way to the needy borrowers or users. The problems involved with
the provision of financial services to the needy borrowers or users include factors such as their conditions, difficulty in accessing
the service, prices of the financial products and services, self-exclusion due to discouraging experiences or perceptions of
individuals or entities and marketing inefficiencies (Leyshon and Thrift, 1993). In a broader sense, the word financial exclusion
was first referred in the year 1999. At this point of time, the concept of financial exclusion used to mean that category of people
who have been restricted or constrained to have access to core financial services or products (Kempson and Whyley, 1999).
Kempson et al. in 2000 had undertaken very comprehensive analysis of the term financial exclusion in the United Kingdom on his
work for the apex monetary institution of the nation, Financial Services Authority (FSA). The argument raised by him was that
financial exclusion initially viewed as a geographic subject matter (Pratt, Leyshon, and Thrift 1996 a, b) pertaining to branch
closures, especially in specific low-income societies without any financial services or with minimum services being made
available to them. The definition of financial exclusion was further broadened by the work of Kempson et al. (2000) to include the
following aspects within the gamut of exclusion;
Exclusion arising out of assessing the risk and designing appropriate products to the poor people/customers.
Exclusion that occurs because of mismatch in the cost of providing service to the customers in relation to the income
derived on the same product or service.
Exclusion of people by the financial institutions from offering financial services by ignoring them. Here people are
beyond the reach of target market.
Self-exclusion: Here people voluntarily believe that they will be denied the access of financial products or services, or
customers may take back seat instead of getting themselves involved with banking services offered by the financial
institutions.
Breadth, Focus and Degree of financial exclusion are the other dimensions of analyzing the concept of financial exclusion.
The broadest form of representing financial exclusion is the breadth among the three. Breadth links the exclusion from finance
to social aspects. Breadth dimension of the financial exclusion concept signifies that poor and disadvantaged group or class of
people in the society is prevented from acquiring financial services from the financial system (Leyshon and Thrift, 1995). The
focus approach of analyzing the financial exclusion concept is in moderate range that links financial exclusion to other angles of
exclusion. As per focus dimension, financial exclusion refers to the potential difficulties faced by few segments of the population
or the society in accessing core financial services. Such financial services include bank accounts, home insurance etc. The focus
dimension also vary significantly to include various other segments of population or the society like individuals, communities,
households, and businesses (Meadows et al., 2004).
The narrowest dimension or approach of measuring exclusion is the degree. It recognizes financial exclusion as exclusion from
specific set of banking services or products such as insurance, bill-payment services, and appropriate deposit accounts among
others. Here the banking services offered to the people are confined to only few designated services rather than whole lot of
services of a typical financial institution (Rogaly, 1999). Concept of relativity is another form of identifying the exclusion.
According to the concept of relativity, a vast majority of the people is catered with financial products or services as a standard and
is financially included. Due to the increased inclusion as a standard for a specific set of majority group of people, minority are left
behind the service of the financial institutions. The minorities may be the households or the individuals (Kempson et al., 2000). If
the account that is opened in the bank remain unused, or if the user does not know how to use it, then the financial inclusion
cannot take place though the service is offered to the individuals. Hence, financial exclusion is described using alternative terms
such as depth and breadth. The frequency at which the people are using financial services is referred to as depth and the wide
variety of choice in financial services available to the people is termed as breadth (Regan & Paxton, 2003). According the Deputy
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Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), financial exclusion is the hindrance in reaching definite segments of the society to
provide people an appropriate, low-cost, fair, and safe financial services or products by the designated financial service providers
in the country (Rakesh Mohan, 2006). While certain social groups and individuals are prevented from gaining access to financial
services by the mainstream financial system, there said to be financial exclusion (Leyshon and Thrift, 1995). Financial services
needs to be provided in an appropriate manner to the needy borrowers, who have either low income or geographically distant from
financial institutions. Exclusion may take place due to the gaps prevailing because of low income and distant geographical
location. This results in lack of access, condition, price and self-exclusion in response to negative experiences and contributes
consequently to financial exclusion (Sinclair, 2001).
The financial exclusion is a broad inability to offer financial services to selected societal groups occasionally and hence they are
deprived of financial services (Carbo et al., 2005). People always require a minimum level of financial assistance to enable them
to lead a normal social life. Hence, there supposed to be some financial institutions to provide basic services to the people so that
they fulfill their societal needs. However, when people face problems to avail financial services in the open market, there happens
to be financial exclusion (European Commission, 2008). Financial inclusion is a matter of utmost concern as it excludes the
people of lower income and those who in need of financial help and face financial hardships. Financial exclusion and poverty goes
hand in hand and it results in reduced social interaction and participation in the society (RBI, 2008). Mere bank account is not
luxury, instead it is a necessity and it should be considered as a fundamental right of citizens of a country. Possessing a basic nofrills bank account is only a necessity, but certainly not a sufficient condition to consider it as financial inclusion. If delivery of
financial services such as money remittance, life or health insurance, pension, mutual funds, etc. are not made available at an
affordable market driven cost to the poor people, financial inclusion is said to be in existence.
After accumulating minimum requirement of savings, poor people are inclined to grow their funds beyond the inflation rate
prevailing in the region. For this to happen, competitive market and attractive rate of interest is essential (S. Ramesh & Preeti
Sahai, 2007). Poor peoples options for operating a household budget, or a micro or small enterprises would be very expensive
unless the financial services or assistance is made available by the conventional providers. This may gradually build up to an
extent of social exclusion particularly in rural areas (Mohan, 2006). The literature also brings the degree of financial exclusion.
This ranges from hyper-included to unbanked. Hyper included are those who have full access to the banking facilities and
unbanked does not have any access to banking facility. Between these two extreme limits, there is a category called under
banked or marginally banked. These are the ones who have banking facilities but not sufficiently utilizing (Kempson et al.,
2000). An Australian report on financial exclusion highlighted yet another group who are included within the gamut of financial
services, but they are using inappropriate or wrong products. They can also be referred as financially excluded category. They are
sometimes the victims of inappropriate financial products offered (AZN Banking Group, 2004). There is also research as to
whether financial inclusion is a short-term or long-term phenomenon. The usage of financial services by an individual or a
household may range from a short span of time to a long-term period. However, exclusion of individuals or households from
financial services does not reveal whether the exclusion is for a short or long period. In addition, the exclusion will not indicate
whether the degree of exclusion is increasing or decreasing (Chant Link and Associates, 2004). In another angle, financial
exclusion is vulnerability to exclusion and has continuous state of being rather than merely having access to few financial
services. While financial exclusion is a short-term experience for few people; it will be long-term phenomenon for few other
consumers and it may be even a life-long process for many other consumers (Connolly and Hajaj, 2001).
The close look at the financial exclusion reveals an interesting observation of exclusion being included in inclusion. Individuals
who are above the poor people, micro and medium entrepreneurs in many countries have enormous difficulties in accessing
financial service from the providers. This category of people though financially included, they are weakly included within the
financial gamut. Low-income segments of the society do not even have the privilege to have an access to very basic financial
services. Most of the people are underserved in terms of quality and quantity of products and services being offered, but all of
them have access to the financial services. A significant proportion of low-income households in many countries are dependent on
untenable, subsidy-based and inadequately performing institutions. This is in turn results in greater financial exclusion (Asian
Development Bank, 2007). Small farmers with uneconomic holdings, oral lessees, landless labourers, self-employed,
entrepreneurs of unorganized sector, dwellers of urban slum, minority people of ethnic groups, migrants, socially downtrodden
groups, senior citizens and women are predominantly excluded from providing financial services in India (Mohan, 2006).
CAUSES OF FINANCIAL EXCLUSION
Root cause of financial exclusion can be attributed to three closely related factors. Firstly, the exceptional decline in financial
retail outlets in poorer communities. This aggravated the drastic changes in housing policies. Consequently, localized
concentrations of poor people on housing estates in the outskirts of big cities have been created. The whole process took roughly a
time span of few decades. Secondly, at the same time, closure of significant number of bank and building society branches has
fuelled the situation. The residual branches, as a result centered in the town and city centers. Thirdly, consequent to the physical
problems of access among people living in poorer communities, especially by the low levels of car ownership aggravated the
situation. The available public transportation system that is expensive and frequently undependable worsened the problem.
Interruption caused in the provision of financial services due to physical access because of changing geography, is not just viewed
as financial exclusion. Instead, the debate on financial exclusion has been widened to view the profile of the people who make no
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or little use of financial services from a close lens and the way in which people are being (process) excluded from financial
services (Ford and Rowlingson, 1996; Kempson and Whyley, 1998, 1999a, 1999b; Office of Fair Trading, 1999 a). The concept
of financial exclusion can also be further looked in two other ways (S. Ramesh & Preeti Sahai, 2007):
Insufficient access to financial services due to several reasons such as:
Inefficient and inadequate sources of financial services in rural areas. There is no safe deposit, savings or insurance
services. These financial services are generally offered by unprofessional money lenders who are permeated in the
nook and corner of the villages.
Low awareness and high level of barriers to avail information, especially for women in rural places.
High cost of operating the business or servicing the poor people, huge client size but less volume added to the
causes of exclusion by financial institutions, primarily because of low outreach.
Some beleaguered financial institutions have poor functioning and financial history like financial cooperatives. The
ineffectiveness of such financial cooperatives has limited their outreach figures largely.
The memberships in Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACSs) are limited to land owners and
influential people in the locality, PACS are also often considered exclusionary in nature.
Most of the cities and towns are outside the reach of formal financial services and these cities and town fall in urban
areas. Therefore, absence of formal financial services found not only in rural areas, but also in urban areas as well and
the magnitude of exclusion is relatively high in towns and cities. The exclusion that occurs due to informal financial
service has some common features. They are:
There found to be a very high level of risk for saving of the poor by the in formal financial service providers. The
loss of savings accumulated by the urban dwellers is an easily perceptible trend in low-income neighborhoods.
The cost of credit availed by the poor is very high and the conditions on which money is being lent is exploitative.
Credit lent against the pledge of gold is very expensive than the effective interest rates, similarly, interest rate paid
by hawkers and vendors are very high and generally the interest is charged on daily basis on these lending.
Cost of money transfer is found to be costly. In addition, leakage in money transfer is a common phenomenon.
Since the money transfer takes place through informal means, delay is expected to happen often.
Absence of insurance products and pension plans are felt largely. The needs of life, assets, and health are
substantially low or nil.
One of the basic problems of India is the lack of adequate literacy and there is a connection between literacy rate and financial
exclusion. Sufficient financial education and advice is essential to include more number of people within the reach of financial
inclusion or to minimize the degree of financial exclusion. With this level of literacy background, providing financial capability to
the people is not just difficult, rather it is highly challenging task. The financial inclusion process has become more complex
because of social exclusion issues. This has slowed down the extension of financial services to people and making them
financially literate in a big way (S. Ramesh & Preeti Sahai, 2007). Financial exclusion can emerge because of multiple factors, in
addition to those discussed in the preceding paragraphs (Financial Services Authority, 2000, p. 9 - Santiago Carbo, Edward P. M.
Gardener and Philip Molyneux):
Access Exclusion: In this case, access to the people is restricted in the process of risk assessment and kept away from
accessing the service itself.
Condition Exclusion: Where the conditions attached to financial products make them unsuitable for the needs of some people.
Price exclusion: Here the prices of the financial products fixed at a level higher than the affordable level of the people. Only
few people can avail financial services at this price.
Marketing Exclusion: Under this type of exclusion, financial service providers intentionally exclude certain segment or group
of people from the target market. Such categories of people are not covered under any of the marketing or sales promotional
activities launched by the financial service providers.
Self-Exclusion: This indicates that people on their own voluntarily believe that they are refused to avail financial services by
the providers and hence feel there is absolutely no need of applying for financial services. The reason why people feel on their
own that they will be rejected at application stage itself may be due to perceived differences in dealing with the service
providers or due to their experiences.
The risk perception attached to the financial products and services offered to the poor people, its cost of assessment and
management of products, inadequate rural infrastructure such as road, electricity, internet etc. and finally the vast geographical
spread of rural areas are major causes of financial inclusion in India. There are millions of villages in India that are sparsely
populated (Mohan, 2006). Unsuitability of products suiting to the requirements of the people in the rural areas, very strict and
rigid documentation, and requirement of suitable collateral for availing loan or financial services and increased competition in
providing financial services in the market are some of structural factors that caused financial exclusion. Socio-cultural factors also
played a major role in restricting an individual or household from accessing financial services from the mainstream providers
(United Nations, 2006 b). Demand side factors have played a dominant role in defining the extent of financial exclusion. The
population that desires to access financial services has to have some level of income. Hence, the large population that fall below
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the poverty line is deprived of the financial services. As a result, the extent of financial exclusion tends to be higher due to lack of
demand from this segment of population. The reason is simple, that poor may not have sufficient savings to place deposit in
savings bank account or to avail credit in turn. Consequently low income results in slack demand for financial services,
particularly savings and credit products (RBI, 2008).
CONSEQUENCES OF FINANCIAL EXCLUSION
Financial exclusion consequences can be either a financial consequence or a social consequence. The way, in which people in
country can raise, allocate and use their monetary resources largely affected by financial consequences. The patterns of individual
consumption, their participation in economic activities, how well they are accessible to social welfare and the income and wealth
distribution among them are going to be affected by social consequences. However, overall both the consequences reduce the
overall quality of life. Significant costs are being imposed on individuals, households and in general the whole society. These
include (i) as employers have to pay wages through bank account of the employees, it is a barrier for employment; (ii) saving and
borrowing can be difficult without proper access to accounts; (iii) possessing or owning assets may be difficult; (iv) difficult to
adjust income to sudden changes in the economy; and (v) exclusion or separation from the society (Treasury Committee, UK,
2006). Following are the consequences of financial exclusion as per the available literature:
Cheques drawn in favour of poor people by third parties will be difficult to process unless they have their own bank
accounts. Poor people may have to pay charges for getting these cheques cashed. In many cases, poor people have to
pay high charges for networks of cheque cashing companies. The core job of cheque cashing companies is to offer
exclusive service of this nature (Anderloni and Carluccio 2006; Hogarth and ODonnell 1999, Kempson and Whyley,
1998; Kempson et al, 2000). Financial exclusion also causes (a) complication in day-to-day cash flow management.
Cash flows are irregular and vulnerable as the households and micro enterprises deal the entire set of transactions
through cash only. (b) Due to the lack of bank accounts and other banking services such as savings deposits and
transfers, financial planning is complicated, especially the people from unorganized sector. This has hindered or limited
the chances of making adequate provisions for old age (Mohan, 2006). In countries where payment of wages is directly
credited to employees account through electronic transfer system, employment is not easy to take up in such countries
(Citizens Advice, 2006; Treasury Committee, 2006 b).
The payment of bills through bank accounts will be the norm in some cases. Some times when cash payment outlets are
closed, people may have to pay such bills through the bank accounts. Without own bank account, bills payment
transaction turns out to be a costly venture (BMRB, 2006; Corr 2006; Kempson and Whyley, 1998; Kempson et al,
2000). Low-income people in France and Germany, whose credits are impaired, delay utility bill payments in order to
inject flexibility into their budgets. As a result, people in France and Germany tend to lose utilities and housing
facilities due to non-repayment of bills than those in United Kingdom (Policies, 2007: 36). Banking services turns out to
be a costly affair when they are purchased without stable relationship with the banker. In other words, when the
relationship between the banker and the customer is not stable or ad hoc, the cost of availing services from the banker is
costly. As a result, payments occasionally made by the people for utility bills, payment made to taxes, cashing cheques,
bank transfers to third parties and money orders are very expensive for people who are not the customers of bank. If the
relationship is continuous, then the service charges are relatively reasonable. Therefore there is not only a problem
involved in using alternative commercial profit-oriented financial service providers, but also there are harmful economic
outcomes that are detrimental to the society owing to occasional dealing with the banker by the poor people (BMRB,
2006; Corr 2006; Kempson and Whyley, 1998; Kempson et al, 2000).
People who lack payment cards such as a debit or credit card are deprived of availing lower prices offered on these card
holders by the service provider (i.e., bank). Utility companies also offer discounted rates on electronic payments of bills
every month. People miss the opportunities of getting benefits from both the ends as a result of financial exclusion
(BMRB, 2006; Corr, 2006; Kempson and Whyley, 1998; Kempson et al, 2000). From the macroeconomic perspective
financial exclusion, being without formal savings can pose two problems: (a) People are deprived of benefits of
enjoying the advantages of interest and tax rates that people in formal methods of savings would have enjoyed
otherwise, and (b) Savings channels that are informal are not safe like formal saving facilities (Mohan, 2006).
In case, where people are not in a position to get credit or any financial service of their interest from financial
institutions or any other service providers, then the people have to depend on alternative service providers or the subprime lenders prevailing in the market. The service providers in this case have their own discretion to charge a very high
rate of interest and impose exploitative terms and conditions in the contract (Anderloni and Carluccio, 2006; Collard
and Kempson, 2005; Corr, 2006; Kempson et al, 2000; Treasury Committee 2006 a). The customers of mainstream
banking services face lot of difficulties or consequences. However, the bargaining power of the customers is very high
as the market is governed largely. There is also a possibility that optional commercial entities and their profit-oriented
financial services can bring a number of similar negative consequences to their customers too, as in the case of formal
financial service providers. This is for the reason that, financially excluded people have no other alternative than these
providers and their bargaining power is less. Major drawback of sub-prime loan is its high cost of interest and operation
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and poor terms and conditions. As a result, customers are pushed to greater financial indebtedness and vicious financial
circle thereby mounting the financial difficulties.
There is no formal or professional credit rating system for alternative financial service providers and the customers as
well and hence there is a question on their financial credibility. Customers and the service providers can get trapped
with the risk at any point of time. Service provider is unaware of the credit standards of the customers and vice versa.
Hence, greater risk of defaulting by the customers, charging of higher rate by the service provider is an order. Delay in
repayment of loan or submission of poor collateral by the customer will call for additional levy or charge by the service
provider. This will drag the financial position of the poor people from bad to worse. In Germany, borrowing loan from
the illegal lenders is a major problem. This operation associates with risks such as use of violence and intimidation by
the lenders when they find that the borrowers are in financial difficulty and unable to repay the money borrowed. In
Slovakia, unlicensed or illegal lenders transfer information on default loans to a third company. The company to which
loan collection is outsourced is a specialist in loan collection and use harsh methods to recoup payments from the
borrowers who do not fulfill their repayment promise (Policies, 2007).
Those cannot access any type of credit or totally credit excluded face negative impacts. For example, in Germany,
people who cannot get access to credit have to rely on informal service of saving or borrowing (Policies, 2007). When
the options of formal finance are completely closed, Relational Capital is looked for. Relational capital is availed by
borrowing from relatives, friends, neighbors or kin. However, relational capital is a double-edged source of fund. It
may cause conflict and tension among the circle of close people from whom money has been borrowed and ultimately
result in unpleasant or hostile social relationships or it may even cease the relationships Rogaly et al., 1999).
People who do not have savings cannot cope with even small financial shocks. Those who maintain savings in the form
of cash (i.e., without bank account) are tend to lose the benefit of interest accruable on such unbanked cash balances
(Kempson et al, 2005). In addition, those people who accumulate savings and retain cash at home are exposed to still
higher level of risks such as burglary or theft and as a result lose cash for nothing (Kempson and Whyley 1999; Kempson
et al, 2000). Paying obligations through cash brings a feeling that the money paid is not clean. Instead, it is obtained in
any other manner illegally either within or outside the country. In such a case, people concerned may feel offended and
lose their self-respect or esteem (Gloukoviezoff 2004).
One of the important consequences of financial exclusion, which require profound concern, is the effect on self-esteem.
The adverse impact of financial exclusion on self-esteem leads to self-isolation, disintegration from the social
relationships and connections of friends and families. Lack of knowledge to use proper banking services and being
connected to the banking services without holding an account, cause social detachment depending on individuals
profile such as his history, social status and life experience (Gloukoviezoff, 2004).
CONCLUSION
Financial exclusion is deeply rooted concept. It prevailed in the earlier years too. However, the term financial exclusion was
submerged with some other popular terms such as poverty, deprivation, unemployment, and family breakdown. These words were
extensively used in the popular policy debates in and around Europe. Literature indicates that the most closely associated words
from which financial exclusion emanated are geographical exclusion or social exclusion. Financial exclusion concept, nature,
causes and consequences discussed in the paper are not uniform across the world. It varies as per the prevailing economic system,
structure of financial system, geographical set-up, institutional structure and spread, regulatory system, political will and so on.
Financial exclusion is country specific, geographic specific and people specific. The causes and consequences of financial
exclusion are intensive, wide spread and far reaching. Majority of the causes and consequences discussed in this paper are
interrelated, interdependent, and chronically prevailing in many countries even until today. They pose several implications for
policy formulators to form suitable policies and get rid of financial exclusion or to achieve 100 percent financial inclusion. This
will be the way for achieving inclusive growth too. The diversity of the concept and the change in their magnitude or composition
are measured in different studies that are quoted under literature review. However, for more quantified analysis present study may
not be sufficient unless we compare couple of studies at a time and compare data across the nations.
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