2020 EduFin Research Grants
The 2020 edition received a remarkably warm welcome. 40 applications from 23 countries were received, making this year the most international yet.
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Look up the latest publications written by experts in the field of education and financial capabilities.
25 June 2020
OECD/INFE 2020 International Survey of Adult...
25 June 2020
Twenty-six countries and economies across three continents (Asia, Europe and Latin...
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19 May 2020
Women's financial inclusion in response to t...
19 May 2020
Women's financial inclusion in response to t...
The COVID-19 crisis has generated disruptions in economic and social dynamics, exa...
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Good Practices
Access a selection of good practices in Financial Education and Capability.
12 September 2019
MoneyFest
12 September 2019
MoneyFest
MoneyFest is the first personal finance festival in Mexico that will give weight to your cash. Through conferences, workshops, music and ...
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3 June 2019
Be Better
8 April 2019
Financial Football
BBVA's Impact
BBVA's initiaves of financial education around the world impact on the following beneficiaries:
Featured stories
Learn how financial education impacts people's life, helps them achieve financial capability, make better decisions and get their purposes.
1 December 2016
La mirada de Walter
1 December 2016
La mirada de Walter
Walter tells us about his chance to make his impossible dreams come true thanks to his participation in a BBVA Francés Financial Literacy...
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27 October 2016
Kakao Chocolates
Financial Education on Twitter
These are the latest tweets about Financial Education and Capability worldwide
EduFin Research Grants 2020
18 - March-18 - May, 2020
The Center for Financial Education and Capability is launching the third Call for Expressions of Interest. We invite researchers, teams of researchers and research organizations to conduct rigorous research on financial education and capabilities related issues in the world
Center's Advisory Council
The Center for Financial Education and Capability has the advice of the following organizations.
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World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does. Our activities are shaped by a unique institutional culture founded on the stakeholder theory, which asserts that an organization is accountable to all parts of society. The institution carefully blends and balances the best of many kinds of organizations, from both the public and private sectors, international organizations and academic institutions. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.
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OECD
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change. We measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment. We analyse and compare data to predict future trends. We set international standards on a wide range of things, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals. We also look at issues that directly affect everyone’s daily life, like how much people pay in taxes and social security, and how much leisure time they can take. We compare how different countries’ school systems are readying their young people for modern life, and how different countries’ pension systems will look after their citizens in old age.
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CAF
CAF is a development bank created in 1970, owned by 19 countries - 17 of Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal- as well as 13 private banks in the region. It promotes a sustainable development model through credit operations, non-reimbursable resources, and support in the technical and financial structuring of projects in the public and private sectors of Latin America. With headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela , CAF has offices in Buenos Aires, La Paz, Brasilia, Bogota, Quito, Madrid, Mexico D.F, Panama City, Asuncion, Lima, Montevideo and Port of Spain.
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Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC)
Founded in 2011 at the George Washington University School of Business, the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC), formerly known as the Global Center for Financial Literacy (GCFL), has positioned itself to be the world’s leading center for financial literacy research and policy. Through rigorous scholarship and research, wide-reaching education, and global policy and services, the Center works with partners in Washington, DC, throughout the United States, and across the globe to raise the level of financial knowledge. GFLEC builds on more than ten years of academic research by Professor Annamaria Lusardi, an early contributor to financial literacy as a field of study. By virtue of its location in the heart of Washington, DC, the Center is positioned to directly influence policy makers.
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The Institute of International Finance
The Institute of International Finance is the global association of the financial industry, with close to 500 members from 70 countries. Its mission is to support the financial industry in the prudent management of risks; to develop sound industry practices; and to advocate for regulatory, financial and economic policies that are in the broad interests of its members and foster global financial stability and sustainable economic growth. IIF members include commercial and investment banks, asset managers, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, central banks and development banks.
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Better Finance_ Center's Observer Member
Better Finance, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users acts as an independent financial expertise centre to the direct benefit of financial services users. Those include individual and small shareholders, fund and retail investors, savers, pension fund participants, life insurance policy holders, borrowers, and other stakeholders who are independent from the financial industry. Better Finance merged with Euroshareholders on 1 January 2013 to form Better Finance.
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International Finance Corporation
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), is a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. We utilize and leverage our products and services—as well as products and services of other institutions in the World Bank Group—to provide development solutions customized to meet clients’ needs. We apply our financial resources, technical expertise, global experience, and innovative thinking to help our partners overcome financial, operational, and political challenges. Clients view IFC as a provider and mobilizer of scarce capital, knowledge, and long-term partnerships that can help address critical constraints in areas such as finance, infrastructure, employee skills, and the regulatory environment. IFC is also a leading mobilizer of third-party resources for its projects. Our willingness to engage in difficult environments and our leadership in crowding-in private finance enable us to extend our footprint and have a development impact well beyond our direct resources.
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BBVA Microfinance Foundation
The BBVA Microfinance Foundation is a non-profit institution created by the BBVA Group in May 2007 as part of its corporate responsibility (CR) strategy, and it focuses its activity on financial inclusion. The Foundation is part of BBVA’s aim to link its community involvement projects with activity in the financial sector wherever possible, specifically in the fight against financial exclusion. The Foundation’s objective is to promote the inclusive and sustainable economic and social development of disadvantaged people by giving them access to Responsible Finance for productive activities, speciality and the methodology of the Foundation. With the backing of a banking institution that has been in the business for more than 150 years, the BBVA Microfinance Foundation is dedicated to helping disadvantaged communities in a completely philanthropic way. The BBVA Microfinance Foundation is completely autonomous, as much as in legal terms , corporate governance and management. It invests its endowment on the creation and consolidation of microfinance institutions in Latin America. Any profits made by them are reinvested in the Foundation’s own activity, and no money goes back to BBVA. This is expressly stated in the Foundation’s bylaws, which safeguards all the funds for the mission and the Foundation’s objectives, thus guaranteeing that the institution will always dedicate its activity to this end.
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Arellano Consultoria para Crecer
Founded by Dr. Rolando Arellano Cueva in 1996, Arellano Consultoria para Crecer is a Peruvian company dedicated to marketing research and consultancy in Peru and elsewhere in Latin America, particularly in emerging countries. Vision: to be recognized around the world as experts in management solutions with a market focus on emerging economies. Mission: to provide practical and scientific information, education and advice with a market focus, that allows our customers to grow their profits, increasing the welfare of society and of our partners.
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EVERFI
EverFi is the leading education technology company focused on teaching, assessing, badging, and certifying students in critical skills. We combine cutting-edge personalized technology, deep education research and data, and a dedicated implementation team that allows each teacher to feel as though they have a blended learning assistant in their classroom. Most importantly, EverFi partners with the private sector and foundations that sponsor this innovation across the country at no cost to K-12 schools. EverFi is building and operating the nation's largest network for online education in off-curriculum, but highly valuable content areas such as financial literacy, student loan management, digital literacy, STEM Readiness, health and wellness and other key life skills for the 21st century student. EverFi’s award-winning, proprietary software-as-a-service platform is designed to provide a highly engaging experience for students and features the latest technology and instructional design, including rich media, high-definition video, 3D simulations and social networking. We work with more than 12,000 schools, colleges and universities in all 50 states and Canada.
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European Banking Federation
The European Banking Federation is the voice of the European banking sector, uniting 32 national banking associations in Europe that together represent some 4,500 banks – large and small, wholesale and retail, local and international – employing about 2.5 million people. EBF members represent banks that make available loans to the European economy in excess of €20 trillion and that securely handle more than 300 million payment transactions per day. Launched in 1960, the EBF is committed to creating a single market for financial services in the European Union and to supporting policies that foster economic growth.
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Inter-American Development Bank
We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education, and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of increased integrity, transparency, and accountability. The Bank´s current focus areas include three development challenges – social inclusion and inequality, productivity and innovation, and economic integration – and three cross-cutting issues – gender equality and diversity, climate change and environmental sustainability; and institutional capacity and the rule of law.
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The Experts Forum of BBVA Pensions Intitute
The Experts Forum is formed by independent personalities from different nationalities, belonging to the academic world and socioeconomic research, with no occupational or mercantile relation further than their participation in this Forum. The role that The Experts Forum will play in both Mi Jubilación and its BBVA Pensions Institute section are the following: On one side, they will lead and develop the assignments and research related to social security affairs, in order to issue contributions with scientific base that will enrich the acknowledge of this subject. On the other side, they will spread this conclusions among the society in order to contribute the acknowledge and transparency about the mechanism and the challenge that out pensions system represents. As a disclaimer, all the works, opinions, conclusions and/or recommendations issued by The Experts Forum belong independently to their members, in no case compromising BBVA Group, further than the divulgation of the potential quoted works through the different channels and initiatives belonging to Mi Jubilación and BBVA Pensions Insitute. By last, The Forum counts with the support of BBVA Research, on which rests the labor related to investigation and secretarial functions.
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Center for Financial Inclusion
Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI) is an action-oriented think tank working toward full global financial inclusion. Constructing a financial inclusion sector that reaches everyone with quality services will require the combined efforts of many actors. CFI contributes to full inclusion by collaborating with sector participants to tackle challenges beyond the scope of any one actor, using tools that include research, convening, capacity building, and communications.
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The World Bank
The World Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030: End extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.90 a day to no more than 3% and Promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country. The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. The World Bank Group comprises five institutions managed by their member countries. Established in 1944, the World Bank Group is headquartered in Washington, D.C. We have more than 10,000 employees in more than 120 offices worldwide.
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Ibero-American Secretariat General
The Ibero-American Secretariat General is an international support organisation for 22 countries that make up the Ibero-American community: the 19 Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America and those of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain, Portugal and Andorra. We support the organisation of the Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, we implement its mandates and we drive Ibero-American Cooperation in the areas of education, social cohesion and culture. We are the only official space for convergence, work, supervision and agreements in the Ibero-American region that brings together countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
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MIDE, The Interactive Museum of Economics
The Interactive Museum of Economics is the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to economics. The museum was opened in 2006 was opened with the sponsorship of the Bank of Mexico, the Nacional Financiera and other government organizations. The museum is open to the public but its focus is on students, teachers and economic professional providing hands-on exhibits meant to be fun and engaging.
