rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings … household's ability to save on a regular basis. Due to limited outreach of institutional housing finance, most slum dwellers …

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

"The author analyzes sectoral patterns of investment and saving in China-over time and compared with other countries … several policy debates. Key findings include: (1) investment by enterprises distinguishes China from other countries and … explains most of the variation over time; (2) high household saving explains only a part of the large difference in national …

The China Clean Stove Initiative (CSI), a collaborative effort of the Chinese government and the World Bank, aims to … solid fuels beyond 2030. More than half of China's population still relies on solid fuels (coal and biomass) for cooking and … infrastructure. Effective strategies to scale up the dissemination of clean burning, fuel-efficient stoves for household cooking and …