saving and increased consumption. The main findings are that spending on health, but not education, had an impact on …Consumption in China is unusually low and has continued to decline as a share of GDP over the past decade. A key policy … question is how to reverse this trend, and rebalance growth away from reliance on exports and investment and toward consumption …

personal saving rate in the United States. It does so by comparing the U.S. experience with those of Australia, Canada, and the … relationship between U.S. saving and net worth, with a somewhat smaller coefficient than in previous studies. HEW is estimated to … have a temporary negative impact on saving of the order of 20 cents on the dollar …

China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … younger households are consistent with rising income uncertainty and higher saving rates among older households are consistent …

Italy and provinces in Canada. Analyzing saving-investment correlations, and developing as well as fitting to the data a …

This paper examines the relationship between terms of trade shocks, private saving, and the current account position … consumption and intratemporally substituting consumption between importables and nontradables. The relative strength of these …

We estimate consumption dynamics in the G-7 economies, paying particular attention to the possibility of precautionary … consumption growth. As such, consumption in the G-7 economies is unlikely to be the engine that revives global growth. Differences … in the pace and timing of consumption moderation have implications for the evolution of global imbalances. With the U …