region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances …

distortions. I document major trends in aggregate savings, investment, trade, and net foreign asset positions in China, and …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …

relationship. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings …

easing entrepreneurial investments for credit-constrained individuals whose investment possibilities depend on their income …

/informal sector choice and saving decisions under the rules of Chile's canonical privatized pension system. The parameters governing …. Our policy experiments show that Chile could achieve a reduction of 23% of minimum pension costs, while guaranteeing the …

increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical …