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Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist features disguise the profoundly unfamiliar foundations of "market socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by controlling the career advancement...
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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. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India …
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scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing investment and growth. Yet, the data and several case studies suggest that the … saving and investment rates tends to be a time consuming process. This also suggests that greater political instability and … polarization would induce consumers to be more cautious in increasing their saving and investment rates following a reform. Hence …
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National saving rates differ enormously across developed countries. But these differences obscure a common trend …
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We conduct a field experiment to test the demand for flexibility and for soft and hard commitment among clients of a microfinance institution. We offer a commitment contract inspired by the rotating structure of a ROSCA. Additional treatments test ex ante demand for soft commitment (in the form...
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This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt … goods should be financed only from current revenue. With investment in the stock of public infrastructure, public sector …
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This paper uses a quasi natural experiment to explore how financial education changes savings, investment, and consumer …
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technology of private investment. Government policies that discourage saving might make the Schumpeterian vision of a shift from … sharp decline in the net national saving rate-from over 8% of GDP in the U.S. in the 1970s to only 4.5% in the 1980s & from …
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reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …
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It is well understood that investment serves as a shock absorber at the time of crisis. The duration of the drag on … investment, however, is perplexing. For the nine Asian economies we focus on in this study, average investment/GDP is about 6 … between the sustained reserve accumulation and the persistent and significantly lower levels of investment in the region. Put …
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