savings in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with a focus on the effect of financial liberalization on private savings. It also … analyses why the savings rate for SSA countries is lower than for other developing countries, by examining whether the … determinants of private savings in SSA differ significantly from non-SSA countries. We find: (i) financial liberalization does not …

individuals respond to tax subsidy for long-term savings. We utilize the 2013 tax reform that lowered the price subsidy for long …-term savings in order to obtain causal identification. Our difference-in-difference analysis illustrates that there is a …

One essential condition of economic progress in any society is an ample supply of savings, which depends on the growth … of real capital. Economists agree that higher investment rates will lead to higher growth. Thus, domestic savings is … considered an important determinant of growth in developing countries. However, Ghana has one of the poorest savings performances …