The effects of a thinly-spread economic-financial basic knowledge are usually confined to the personal sphere of citizens: savings, accumulated wealth, access to debt, retirement choices are the aspects usually analyzed.

However, the lack of basic financial knowledge has major effects also on the social sphere of a country and, more in general, on its capacity to reform its own economic system.

Read here the article by Elsa Fornero and Ivan Lagrosa, for Lavoce.info