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Australia : selected issues
Schule, Werner; Jauregui, Juan; Sun, Yan; Basu, Suman - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510794
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Malawi Financial Sector Assessment Program : Contractual Savings - Insurance and Pensions
International Monetary Fund - 2008
The penetration level of the insurance and pension sectors in Malawi is low, but it seems adequate as compared with other countries in similar stages of development. Concentration and costs are high, the regulatory framework is outdated or inexistent and supervision is weak. An innovative pilot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247124
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A Noteon Saving-Investment Correlations in the EMS
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment correlations for industrial countries in the post-war period. The focus of the enquiry is on differences observed between EMS and non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396141
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Aging, Savings, and Pensions in the Group of Seven Countries: 1980-2025
International Monetary Fund - 1989
the elderly. This study suggests that these demographic trends may lead to a decline in the G-7 private savings rate after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396157
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Factors Affecting Saving, Policy tools, and Tax Reform : A Review
International Monetary Fund - 1989
, the limited tools available to policymakers to affect savings are discussed. Finally, the extent to which recent tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396192
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Saving-Investment Correlations : Immobile Capital. Government Policy or Endogenous Behavior?
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over time. It is concluded that the main reason for the observed high correlations over the recent period is probably government policy
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396226
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Savings, Investment, and Growth in Mexico : Five Years After the Crisis
International Monetary Fund - 1989
Despite Mexico’s recent remarkable progress in adjusting its fiscal and external accounts and in restructuring its economy, the recovery of growth has remained elusive. This paper reviews some aspects of Mexico’s recent performance and suggests that systemic adjustment uncertainty, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396459
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396466
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Dynamiccs of Asian Savings : Role of Growth and Age Structure
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper shows how growth and demography, two important determinants of the savings rate in the life-cycle approach …, explain a large part of the diversity in savings behavior in Asia across eight countries as well as over time. Inflation and … save. The paper also finds evidence in favor of the error-correction formulation under which the savings rate varies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396475
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Fiscal Policy and Private Sector Saving Behavior : Tests of Ricardian Equivalence in Some Developing Economies
International Monetary Fund - 1987
Tax or debt financing of a given rate of government expenditures would, according to the now well-known Ricardian Equivalence proposition, have equivalent effects on aggregate demand. Among the reasons for a deviation from the equivalence is the possibility that the government and the private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396483