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 …

excess savings (defined as the difference between gross saving and capital formation) and a gradual decline of gross capital …

to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in … household being above and below the poverty line. The paper provides an overview of the methods and issues arising in each case …

estimated through a CGE model (GTAP) and then mapped into the welfare function of the household using household survey data. The … empirical approach the author uses aims to measure the impact of Doha implementation by tracing changes in the household prices … of goods and factors and their impact on household welfare, taking particular account the role of domestic price …

and experimentally analyzes an innovative financial product called a Weather Insurance Savings Account (WISA), which … combines savings and rainfall insurance. The paper uses a standard model of intertemporal insurance demand to study how … participants valuations of pure insurance, pure savings, and intermediate WISA types. Contrary to the standard model, within …

This paper uses nationally representative survey data from Mexico to compare households with savings accounts in formal … demographic and occupational profiles, the former are more educated and have markedly greater wealth. The median banked household … spends 32 percent more per capita than the median unbanked household, and the median per capita wealth in banked households …

. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and …