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China's trade surpluses are just as much a product of the country's low wages and high savings.

Productivity has accelerated thanks partly to China's high savings rate, which pushes down the cost of capital investment.

These efforts should continue to help boost consumer spending by reducing the excessively high savings rate.

'In East Asia we tend to be frugal and thrifty. This contributes to the high savings rate in the region, ' he told the conference Saturday.

That's in part because China is still a relatively poor country, with a high savings rate.

China has a ridiculously high savings ratio so its residents are well equipped to deal with a moderate bubble.

This kind of high savings, high capital outflow growth strategy is not the most beneficial to China.

Shortly after his paper on the end of the dollar, Mr Zhou published his thoughts on high savings rates, the flip side of US borrowing.

Government bonds were steady, if you picked a country with no trade or fiscal deficits and a high savings rate.

We still have innovative entrepreneurs, a hard working and flexible workforce, a very high savings rate, and openness to trade and ideas.

With high savings and a current-account surplus, China lacks many of the vulnerabilities that toppled Western credit systems in 2008.

With a high savings rate, the Mainland has a huge amount of funds that can be channelled into investment.

Like other Asian nations, China has historically had a high savings rate, so its financial system was flush with cash.

China's high savings show up all over the place: they're piling up not just in household bank accounts, but also in company vaults.

They find that in areas where the male-to-female sex ratio for young Chinese is high, savings rates are higher, too.

China's high savings rate and negative real interest rates are seen as facilitating and encouraging an investment-led growth model.

But neither type of financial flexibility really suits relatively poor countries with high savings rates.

China is seeking to boost consumption, in part to lower the high savings rate that fuels the contentious current account surplus.

Their study hypothesized that the strict 30-plus-year old one-child-per-family plan is the primary driver of the high savings rate.

They point to China's still-robust economic growth, moderate public-debt levels, high savings rate and big trade surplus.

After all Italy also has a high savings rate, and it even enjoys a primary surplus, but it was not spared market contagion.

The euro area's consumers have high savings and low debt by rich-world standards but are nervous all the same.

High savings lead, over time, to increased investment, which in turn generates productivity gains, innovation and job growth.

Although 2009 will be a painful year for poorer countries, those with high savings and modest debt could recover fairly quickly.

The key is to lower the persistently high savings rate that is the main cause of its trade surplus and over-investment.

China's high-savings, high-investment economy is costly for its people and destabilising for the world.

Both tend to lead to excess liquidity due to a high savings rate on incremental income growth.

One reason for high savings, Lardy says, is the shredding of the social safety net.

A high level of investment, which requires high savings to finance, is therefore a precondition for rapid economic growth.

The link sounds plausible: take China's regular 9-10% annual growth and its high savings rate.

China's rapid growth has been driven by high savings and investment rates.

This is why high growth and a high savings rate are vital.

Germany has a high savings rate but pension-fund assets of just 14% of GDP.

For many years, high savings ensured a ready source of local buyers.

In addition, says Bottelier, the government is expanding health and pension benefits to dampen households' need for high savings.

For years, capital in China has arguably been too cheap because of imposed limits on rates and a high savings rate.

'People outside China need a better insight into the high savings rate in China, ' Mr. Zhou said.

But it is mainly because of China's high savings rate.

The high savings in China are embedded in the structure of the economy.

Second, the Chinese have a high savings rate because the old social safety net has disintegrated.

The pain tolerance threshold of the Hong Kong economy is traditionally high given the high savings rate.

Although high savings rates can be found across Asia, the Chinese propensity to save is rooted in deep-seated memories of scarcity

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