Empowerment of Whom and for What? Financial Literacy Education and the New Regulation of Consumer Financial Services

Financial regulators in many states recently have obtained statuory mandates to enhance consumer financial literacy. This paper investicages the development of policy pursuant to such mandates in the UK and Canada to identify how national regulators in both countries represent financial market place. It finds that regulators in both countries represent financial education as empowerment and responsible consumer behaviour. The paper rekates the tension between empowerment and responsibilization aspects of literacy enhancement to policy goals of expectations of protection. It raises questions about regulators' use of consumer education to responsiblize consumption of financial products and calls for further research on the international growth of financial literacy education as a regulatory project

Fortalecimiento de las capacidades cooperativas y comerciales de asociaciones de productores rurales. El caso del sur del Huila, Colombia

Sintetiza los principales logros del proyecto, así como las herramientas metodológicas que permitieron difundir y socializar la experiencia. Siguiendo el orden cronológico de la experiencia se expone el contexto de la iniciativa, objetivos del proyecto, beneficiados, actividades realizadas y finalmente conclusiones y reflexiones