bywidening top income inequality, rising private savings and compressed consumption rates.Rising corporate profits in an … environment of high business wealth concentration account for90 percent of the rise in the private savings rate and a third of the …

The paper reexamines the main private savings determinants in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), followed by an analysis of the … COVID-19 pandemic impact on private savings in SSA and other country groupings. Using an unbalanced panel data from 1983 … savings in the region. In contrast with other regions, private saving rates have not increased during COVID-19 in SSA. Instead …

converge towards lower equilibrium real interest rates if domestic savings increase to the level of other emerging market … countries. The effect is particularly pronounced if the increase in domestic savings is achieved through higher levels of public … savings. Still, econometric results suggest that, controlling for everything else in the model, real interest rates in Brazil …

reassess national savings behavior, with greater prominence and more careful consideration given to the role played by changing … literature. Going further, we simulate global savings behavior based on our framework and find that China's demographics should … decades, individual countries' convergence toward the simulated savings pattern will be influenced by their past divergences …

We study, both empirically and quantitatively, the role of savings and the labor supply inself-insurance channels over … social security benefits for the period 1995-2009. We find that both savings and the labor supply are quantitatively … adjustment to savings and labor supply have significant macroeconomic implications. Applying the model to China, we find that the …

China's high national savings rate-one of the highest in the world-is at the heart of its external/internal imbalances …. High savings finance elevated investment when held domestically, or lead to large external imbalances when they flow abroad …. Today, high savings mostly emanate from the household sector, resulting from demographic changes induced by the one …