Financial Inclusion Case Study: Case of Turkey

Öz Financial inclusion studies became a popular topic nowadays since; the new era development goals are mainly focus on the development of the under developed countries. Particularly, accessing to any form finance is called financial inclusion. Hence this study aims to examine to financial inclusion for women in Turkey. The main conclusion of the paper is that the people especially women who are in the lowest income level are more likely to be financially included to the fourth and third quartile income level. Furthermore, educated people tend to be financially included compere to the others. Lastly, age group of 25-50 are more likely to be financially included.

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