OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions
Selected studies on finance, insurance and private pensions policy prepared for dissemination in order to stimulate wider discussion and further analysis and obtain feedback from interested audiences. The studies provide timely analysis and background on industry developments, structural issues, and public policy in the financial sector. Topics include risk management, governance, investments, benefit protection, and financial education. Previous papers addressing these policy issues are available via http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/19936397.
- ISSN: 20797117 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20797117
Financial Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Rationale, Overview and Way Forward
Macroeconomic stability and growth in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region have allowed governments to focus on public policies that build on the complementarities between financial education, inclusion and the development of social capital. Financial education programmes can support the needs of emerging middle classes in managing their finances and benefitting from access to more sophisticated financial markets. They can also be a valuable tool to ensure a more effective financial inclusion of the most vulnerable sectors of the population, and help fight poverty and inequality.
Keywords: poverty reduction, Latin America, financial inclusion, financial literacy, financial education, Caribbean, conditional cash transfer programmes
JEL:
I38: Health, Education, and Welfare / Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty / Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs;
I25: Health, Education, and Welfare / Education and Research Institutions / Education and Economic Development;
D31: Microeconomics / Distribution / Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions;
O19: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economic Development / International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations;
D14: Microeconomics / Household Behavior and Family Economics / Household Saving; Personal Finance;
H53: Public Economics / National Government Expenditures and Related Policies / Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
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