National Strategies for Financial Education - the concept and first experiences in the world

Abstract

There have been many studies, whose results confirm the low level of financial literacy of consumers in the world. In 2003 on the initiative of the OECD the process of developing national strategies on financial education (National Strategies or NS) has started. Many countries have already taken the challenge and have developed the NS but unfortunately not all of OECD members.                          First experiences of countries which started developing national strategies allow to define guidelines for this processes. These guidelines can be used in the countries, which are considering the designing and implementation of the National Strategy in the future (e.g. Poland).