Bringing Financial Literacy and Education to Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Financial Literacy: Implications for Retirement Security and the Financial Marketplace

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Holzmann, Robert ^a,b  

^a Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration   (France)

^b Russia Trust Fund of the World Bank   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Countries; Financial education; Income; Literacy; Population; Program; Saving; World Bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896999578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696819.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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