FINANCIAL LITERACY AND CONDITIONS FOR ITS IMPROVEMENT

In this paper we explain the notion of financial literacy and its importance for citizens,financial institutions and society as a whole. Low level of financial literacy andinsufficiently organized institutional framework can create many problems forindividuals and financial institutions as a whole. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a very smallnumber of people are financially literate. There is no strategy for raising the level offinancial literacy. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that, in relation to itssurroundings, at least strives to raise the level of financial awareness and literacy ofcitizens. If it is not possible to adopt a national strategy for raising the level of financialliteracy in B&H, it would be necessary to use the existing institutional capacity toincrease the level of literacy of all structures and groups of the population.