Household savings behavior in China during the past 30 years has been studied by using econometric models with the time …

This paper develops and tests a model of Japan’s household savings rate, based on the life-cycle hypothesis that the … primary motive for savings is provision for retirement. The paper shows that Japan’s high household savings rate in recent …

At the request of the Italian Presidency of the G7, the IMF has prepared a paper on gender-budgeting as a contribution … to the G7 initiative on equality. The paper provides an overview of gender-responsive budgeting concepts and practices in … the G7 countries. It summarizes recent trends in gender equality in G7 and advanced countries, noting that while equality …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

On July 17, 2017, the Fund, as Trustee of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT or Trust), entered into a new …