savings. The other three have been at work for some time: the explosion of inequality, the mass transfer of activities from … -- Chapter 6 -- Savings, the Ultimate in Rare Resources -- The Enigma of the Balance between Savings and Investment -- Three … Decades of a Surplus of Savings -- The World is Changing, Savings decrease -- The World is Changing, Investment incincreases …

The transition economies of Eastern Europe almost uniformly experienced a precipitous plunge in savings rates - from … levels above 30 percent of GDP to levels about half that - early in the transition, before rebounding slightly. Did savings … collapse because involuntary savings were eliminated (when goods became available for purchase) or because of a change in …