What is financial inclusion all about? Notes for a critical perspective

Abstract

The pandemic has helped to accelerate the process of precarization in the sectors of the population to which the new forms of financial inclusion are mostly directed through the collection of emergency subsidies. In this paper we propose to open the discussion on these proposals, on financial education that is announced in various areas, and on the context of the population to which they are addressed. In this sense, we wonder about the future of this inclusion once the emergency subsidies are no longer received, and about how these proposals –financed by multilateral organizations– are included in the discussion on the causes of the crisis. We do this from the theoretical and practical criticism of finance that the feminist perspective has deployed in recent years, and that has demonstrated and politicized the interconnection of economic violence and sexist violence, with special emphasis on the financial  violence of domestic indebtedness.