The distribution of consumption in Moldova implies that changes in workers' remittances, migration, and energy prices … could influence consumption and poverty rates in some unexpected and even counter-intuitive ways. Relatively well-off groups … proportion to their consumption. The consumption of relatively wealthy groups is linked directly to price of natural gas, while …

propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult …

"This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead …. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and … the difference between China and other countries, are due to unusually high enterprise and government saving. Moreover …

growth and increasing the role of consumption. Third, long term saving prospects and the impact of financial sector and …"The author analyzes sectoral patterns of investment and saving in China-over time and compared with other countries …-to shed light on the factors driving high investment and on how saving is channeled into investment. The findings inform …

growth in saving to growth in future consumption to provide a test of genuine saving using historical data. Did measured … genuine saving in 1976, for example, "predict" the observed changes in consumption over subsequent decades? The author tests …"The World Bank has been publishing estimates of adjusted net or "genuine" saving since 1999. This measure of saving …

national saving using a panel of 43 industrial and developing countries. The authors find evidence suggesting that the … accumulation of pension fund financial assets might increase national saving when these funds are the result of a mandatory pension … program. By contrast, national saving might be unaffected when pension funds are the result of a public program implemented to …