Access to finance is a crucial component of economic development. This column studies the effects of Brazil’s ‘Banks for All’ programme, which targeted underbanked cities not served by government-owned banks. It finds a strong positive effect of the policy on the number of bank branches and on the overall amount of credit and deposits, particularly for cities located in
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