relative rise of the U.S. savings rate is helping narrow global imbalances. But with a likely earlier recovery in the U …

This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian …

by comparing its GDP components and its saving and investment performance with those of 10 faster-growing countries. The … study finds that sluggish investment has undermined growth since 1996 and that the underinvestment is in part explained by … limited saving. Thus, over the last decade, interactions between investment, saving, and production may have perpetuated slow …

This paper proposes a possible framework for identifying excessive investment. Based on this method, it finds evidence … that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in inland provinces. In these regions, private … consumption has on average become more dependent on investment (rather than vice versa) and the impact is relatively short …