Financial Literacy Among Working Young in Urban India

Abstract

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Financial Literacy Among Sme’s in Malaysia

“…In other words, the above definition focused on three basic dimensions of financial literacy which are financial knowledge, financial behavior and financial attitude. In line with Agarwalla et al (2013) and Potrich et al (2015) this paper adopted the definition proposed by OECD.…”

“…According to research, individuals with high financial behavior are more likely to participate in stock market and formal financial markets for investment (Klapper and Panos, 2011;Jennifer and Chi, 2018) pay bills on time, anxiously evaluate financial products, prefer savings than borrowings in crisis time, self-assess the affordability of products (Atkinson and Messy, 2012;Agarwalla et al, 2013) actively save, have a bank account, have a formal credit, more capacity of spending (Klapper and Panos, 2011;Atkinson and Messy, 2012;Agarwalla et al, 2013) prefer low cost borrowing (Allgood and Walstad, 2013;Khalifa, 2018) accumulate and manage assets well (Van Rooij et al, 2007), plan and monitor household budget and personal finance (Atkinson and Messy, 2012;Agarwalla et al, 2013) and do retirement planning (Lusardi and Mitchell, 2008;2011a;Van Rooij et al, 2009). Eniola and Entebang (2016) stated that an entrepreneur with high level of financial literacy perform better towards their business success.…”

“…This attitude and preferences on financial matters are treated as one of the vital components of financial literacy (OECD, 2013). Individuals with high financial attitude are said to be more likely to have a positive attitude towards planning (Lusardi and Mitchell, 2008;2011a;Van Rooij et al, 2009;Atkinson and Messy, 2012;Agarwalla et al, 2013) more propensity to save, less propensity to consume (Atkinson and Messy, 2012;Khemili and Belloumi, 2018).…”

Financial Literacy: An Intra-Household Case Study from West Bengal, India

“…A study by Agarwalla et al (2013) considered the influence of various socio-demographic factors on different dimensions of financial literacy among the working young in urban India. The study observed that women have significantly less financial knowledge and showed significantly inferior financial choice behaviour compared to men but they showed significantly superior financial attitude 6 compared to men.…”

“…6 This survey measured the financial attitude of the respondents using three items recommended by the OECD to capture the respondent’s extent of belief in planning, propensity to save and propensity to consume (Agarwalla et al, 2013). …”