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Dependency Rates and Private Savings Behavior in Developing Countries

International Monetary Fund - 1988

countries is still lacking. Two demographic extensions of the representative household’s stochastic dynamic optimization problem …

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The Effects of Financial Deregulationon Consumption

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper examines whether financial deregulation in the 1980s has reduced the importance of liquidity constraints in consumption patterns. Data for six industrialized countries are used to estimate a simple model incorporating liquidity constraints and forward looking behavior. It is concluded...

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United States; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

This Selected Issues paper for the United States discusses the microeconomics of the countryâ€”household wealth and …

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Spain; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

This Selected Issues paper analyzes household savings ratio in Spain. The household savings ratio has fallen to its …. Household savings fell across all households, but the declines were likely more material among lower income and highly indebted … groups. Declining household income and savings slowed deleveraging and put household balance sheets under pressure. Looking …

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Bosnia and Herzegovina; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paperâ€”Mid-Term Development Strategy

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

Poverty risk is most marked for children, displaced persons and returnees, unemployed, and people with low education. Basic goals of the macroeconomic framework of the mid-term development strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina are to reduce the overall public expenditures, lower the public debt,...

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France; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

This Selected Issues paper on France underlies public intervention in financial markets. Econometric analysis indicates that in the long term, consumption tracks disposable income closely but is also affected by wealth effects. A counterfactual exercise suggests that a lower return to experience...

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Urban and Rural Household Savings in China

International Monetary Fund - 1988

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

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Japan's Household Savings Rate : An Application of the Life-Cycle Hypothesis

International Monetary Fund - 1987

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 …

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Optimal Fiscal Policy and Government Provision of Contingent Liabilities : The Example of Government Loan and Deposit Guarantees

International Monetary Fund - 1989

The optimal provision of loan guarantees or deposit insurance is examined in the context of an overlapping generations model. It is demonstrated that even in the face of a market imperfection that precludes diversification of the private sector’s loan portfolio to eliminate risk, full...

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Republic of Tajikistan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses socioeconomic development in the Republic of Tajikistan. Although poverty reduction in rural areas is proceeding at a faster pace than in urban areas, poverty continues to be a predominantly rural phenomenon. In addition to improving the gender...

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