Poverty remains a pressing problem in rural areas of the developing world. This is also true for India. Expanding the rural financial system with a focus on increasing access to credit has been an important approach for poverty alleviation in India. Nevertheless, there is empirical evidence and...

This Handbook presents in-depth research conducted on a myriad of issues within the field of financial literacy. Split into six sections, it starts by presenting prevalent conceptions of financial literacy before covering financial literacy in the policy context, the state and development of...

"In the "Pocket Money Project," researchers from four countries, Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam collaborated and studied how children in those four countries were involved with money, combining various research methods and approaches. What our project tries to present throughout this book is...

Contents: Foreword by Salvatore Rossi -- Introduction / Riccardo Viale and Umberto Filotto -- PART I FINANCIAL LITERACY AND FINANCIAL EDUCATION: RECOMMENDATIONS, EVIDENCE AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- 1 Broadening the scope of financial literacy to incorporate self-control, budgeting and heuristics...