By OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develop
ISBN-10: 9264012567
ISBN-13: 9789264012561
This booklet, the 1st significant learn of monetary schooling on the foreign point, contributes to the advance of customer monetary literacy via delivering details to coverage makers on powerful monetary schooling programmes and through selling the alternate of perspectives and the sharing of expertise within the box of monetary schooling and knowledge. It identifies and analyses monetary literacy surveys in member nations, highlights the commercial, demographic and coverage adjustments that make monetary schooling more and more vital, and describes the different sorts of economic schooling programmes at the moment being provided in OECD nations. eventually, this book evaluates the effectiveness of economic schooling programmes and introduces the OECD Council suggestion on Principals and solid Practices for monetary schooling and knowledge.
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Although some banks participate because they want to be recognised as good corporate citizens, others realise that these activities help them reach hard-to-serve markets such as immigrants or others without a relationship with a bank (Greenspan, 2003a). Central banks can also play a role in the provision of financial education. For example, the Federal Reserve Board and the Reserve Banks in the United States are very active in promoting consumer education and financial literacy training. They work with financial institutions and community groups to highlight the importance of financial education and to increase consumer awareness of local financial educational opportunities.
As a result of this growth in income, there has been an increase in both the percentage of households investing as well as an increase in the amount of household wealth. 2 below. g. mutual funds and retirement accounts. When such indirect holdings are counted, the percentage of households investing in stocks more than doubles in most of the countries illustrated in the table. For example, in 1998, 19 per cent of American households had direct holdings of stocks; however, almost 49 per cent of households held stock either directly or indirectly.