alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of macroeconomic policy-fiscal and monetary policy together with debt … deficit and debt ratios. This paper discusses these macroeconomic dimensions, focusing on the developing world. The paper …

five sets of constraints that may hinder the adoption and effective usage of savings products and services by the poor …

provides elderly assistance and is a source of savings for long-term investment. The pension systems in SSA, however, are …

Capital markets facilitate capital growth by mobilizing savings and converting them into investments, and they are … therefore a stimulant of economic growth. There is evidence that countries with high savings rates tend to grow faster. Although …

This paper examines the national savings behaviour in the process of economic growth through a comparative analysis of … considerable differences in the savings behaviour among countries and over time within individual countries, notwithstanding the … 'model saver' image based on the average savings rate. The empirical analysis distinguishes between private and government …

additional 0.124 standard deviation decrease in household savings and a 0.102 standard deviation increase in household debt. …, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that … associated with a 6.3 per cent decrease in household savings and a 1.4 per cent increase in household borrowing. In the case of …

was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …

2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …