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Empirical studies on the impact of micro level intervention strategies on poverty among poor women in Botswana are lacking, yet women are a valuable asset for the economy of the country. Continued marginalization and disempowerment of women has become a serious problem which merit urgent...
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This article describes how numerous studies in Botswana have found high levels of poverty among women, in particular, those in female-headed households. Extreme poverty among women continues despite government programme interventions designed to end poverty. This article reports the findings of...
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When parents save money for their children's college education, a portion of their savings is later taken away in the … estimating family preferences over life-cycle consumption, savings and college choices and then simulating family choices over …
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Abstract In this paper I explore the quantitative implications for savings of population aging. In doing so, I pay … household size. In order to do so, I develop recursive methods capable of dealing with overlapping generations environments … years, the reduction in aggregate savings due to changes in the age structure of the population is small. ii) If, however …
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The American savings rate, always low by international standards, has fallen sharply in recent decades. In this essay …, I argue that a large part of the savings shortfall results from pressures to keep pace with community spending standards …
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Zusammenfassung Die hohe Korrelation zwischen nationalen Investitions- und Sparquoten ist seit der Studie von Feldstein/Horioka (1980) ein umstrittener, aber zunächst häufig bestätigter empirischer Befund. In diesem Beitrag wird dieser Zusammenhang erneut für die EU-Staaten im Zeitraum von...
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attention is paid to migrants’ savings and transfers to family members in the home country. Our findings indicate that migrants …
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‐running relationship with household savings and enterprise savings. Bilateral causality exists between the domestic savings growth and the …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the growth of domestic savings and economic … economic growth in the short‐run. In the long‐run, a unidirectional causality exists running from the domestic savings growth …
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Purpose – To test the Feldstein‐Horioka hypothesis that the investment‐to‐output ratio moves one‐for‐one with the saving‐to‐output ratio, suggesting international capital mobility. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the econometric framework developed by Fisher and...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to contribute to the study of the relationship between savings and investment in a panel of … the relationship between savings and investment using data on investment and savings for five South Asian developing … Development Indicator (WDI) Database 2008 CD‐ROM. Findings – The results obtained suggest that savings and investment are …
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