and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances … region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …. -- Growth contributions ; national savings and investment ; current account balance ; welfare consequences of growth …

relationship. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings …We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability … data for the 1980-2009 period. We conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse …

Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and economic growth in Asia. The … fertility which changes the age compositions and could thereby account for savings and growth in Asia. … association between the age composition of a nation's population and its savings rate, observed within 16 Asian countries from …

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the … effects, with increases in that age group exerting strong positive effects on GDP growth, and negative effects on the CAB and …

- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual …

While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the … microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to … filling this gap in the literature by studying how natural disasters affect individual saving decisions. This study makes use …

Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a …

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second …-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies distorting the saving decision. Hence a strict order … of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving. The result assumes an isoelastic …