Towards Better Data for Better Development Outcomes: A “lean” DFL survey tool to measure digital and financial literacy globally*

Massie Jessica (), Tebbutt Caz, Atkinson Adele and Boateng Yaa Asamoah
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Massie Jessica: DFL Specialist, UNCDF, Rwanda
Tebbutt Caz: Managing Director, Tebbutt Research, Fiji
Atkinson Adele: Professor of Practice in Financial Literacy and Wellbeing, Centre for Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), University of Birmingham, U.K.
Boateng Yaa Asamoah: Communication and Knowledge Management Analyst, UNCDF, Ghana

International Review of Financial Consumers, 2024, vol. 9, issue 2, 45-56

Abstract: The rapid development and increasing reach of digital platforms for financial products and services provides great potential for better mechanisms for those considered “left behind” in a changing world to access and use new tools for economic development. However, a lack of current data on digital and digital financial knowledge and competencies, particularly in the Pacific region, means that developing targeted data-based interventions can be difficult. To fill the data gap, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and Tebbutt Research implemented a lean digital and financial literacy survey (DFL survey) in six Pacific countries and Timor-Leste in 2022 and 2023, which resulted in findings that provide a baseline as well as information to be used by policy makers, development practitioners and financial service providers to better target low-income and underserved clients.

Keywords: Digital financial literacy; Consumer behavior; Financial wellbeing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.2478/irfc-2024-0008

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