The relationship between temporary terms of trade shocks and household saving in developing countries is examined. It … is first shown that, from a theoretical standpoint, this relationship is ambiguous: private saving may rise or fall in … intra temporal elasticity of substitution between traded and nontraded goods. Empirical estimates of these two parameters …

what drives saving in Latin America. The studies cover Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela and … span a variety of topics ranging from assessing the impact of financial liberalization on saving to determining the role of … terms of trade shocks. Many of the studies also employ new data sources, that provide a better understanding of the saving …

savings. In line with life-cycle theory, we found that longevity increases saving ratios. …

SAVING DOES NOT EQUAL INVESTMENT John Maynard Keynes confused economists and politicians all over the world when he … wrote, “Saving is necessary to equal investment” together with a few equations to confirm his idea and finally concluding … that S = I. There have been repeated discussions about how saving can equal investment, accidentally or with certainty. We …

not support Marx’s notion of an “original accumulation of capital.” Saving and investment must be used when they are made … elastically supplied, by credit expansion for example (as Schumpeter observed). Attributing growth to investment, therefore …

implications for the relationship between investment, finance and saving are drawn. …

The present work studies to the saving and international trade as determinants of the investment in the Latin …-American countries during 1951-2000 using data panel technique. The empirical results show that the differentials of rates of investment … points of increase of the saving or the rate of saving, it causes an increase of 0.05 points in the rate of growth of the …

In this paper we examine the mobility of Polish households with regard to saving rates during the years 2007-2010 and … compare it with the households’ saving mobility during the years 1997-2000. The analysis for 2007-2010 is based on the … distribution of households according to the saving rates. Our results show that the long term households’ distribution reveals a …

In this paper we analyze the relationship between the perception of income as satisfying household needs and saving … relations between the income perception and the household saving rates shows that the perception of income affects both the … household observed and predicted saving rates. The research is based on the Household Budget Surveys data for Poland in 2008. …