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Real Exchange Rates, Saving and Growth : Is There a Link ?
Montiel, Peter J.; Serv??n, Luis - 2012
The view that policies directed at the real exchange rate can have an important effect on economic growth has been gaining adherents in recent years. Unlike the traditional "misalignment" view that temporary departures of the real exchange rate from its equilibrium level harm growth by...
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Who Are the Unbanked?
Djankov, Simeon; Miranda, Pedro; Seira, Enrique - 2012
This paper uses nationally representative survey data from Mexico to compare households with savings accounts in formal …
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How Will China's Saving-Investment Balance Evolve?
Kuijs, Louis - 2012
This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and the difference between China and other...
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Testing Genuine Saving
Hamilton, Kirk - 2012
The World Bank has been publishing estimates of adjusted net or "genuine" saving since 1999. This measure of saving treats depletion of natural resources as a type of economic depreciation. Hamilton uses recent theoretical results relating growth in saving to growth in future consumption to...
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Household Savings and Residential Mobility in Informal Settlements
Lall, Somik V.; Suri, Ajay; Deichmann, Uwe - 2012
rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings …
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Investment and Saving in China
Kuijs, Louis - 2012
The author analyzes sectoral patterns of investment and saving in China-over time and compared with other countries-to shed light on the factors driving high investment and on how saving is channeled into investment. The findings inform several policy debates. Key findings include: (1)...
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Precautionary Saving from Different Sources of Income : Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Adams, Richard H., Jr. - 2013
Few studies have tried to measure how households in a developing country save from each of the different income sources at their disposal. To help fill that gap, the Author uses five-year panel data to examine how households in rural Pakistan save from each of the seven separate sources of...
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Contractual Savings in Countries with a Small Financial Sector
Impavido, Gregorio; Musalem, Alberto R.; Vittas, Dimitri - 2013
accounts can benefit from the development of contractual savings. This can increase the options to obtain sound coverage … against contingencies, increase the supply of long term savings, promote financial deepening, and improve financial risk …
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Pension Funds and National Saving
Lopez Murphy, Pablo; Musalem, Alberto R. - 2013
The authors conduct an empirical study on the effect of the accumulation of pension fund financial assets, on national saving, using a panel of 43 industrial, and developing countries. The authors find evidence suggesting that the accumulation of pension fund financial assets might increase...
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Solow in Transition : Macro and Micro Determinants of Savings in Armenia
Coulibaly, Souleymane; Diaby, Mohamed - 2013
This paper analyzes and reconciles macro and micro evidence on savings and factors that affect savings, as well as … possible policy implications. At the aggregate level, the main question is how savings are affected by growth and macroeconomic … determinants can be reconciled with microeconomic evidence of the savings behavior of households. Using macroeconomic quarterly …
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