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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 … improvements in public pension benefits and the aging of the population. It projects that the savings rate will decline …

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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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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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Fiscal Policy and Private Sector Saving Behavior; Tests of Ricardian Equivalence in Some Developing Economies

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 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...

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Australia : selected issues

Schule, Werner; Jauregui, Juan; Sun, Yan; Basu, Suman - 2011

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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 Concentration and costs are high, the regulatory framework is outdated or inexistent and supervision is weak.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...

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Ghana : Statistical Annex

International Monetary Fund - 1995

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country