National Savings

It looks at the huge amount of Chinese national savings and concludes that much of it does not seem to be captured by the banks.

To be sure, most of any increase in national savings will come from a reduction in budget deficits.

Inflation and national savings rates are also likely to be considered as part of the range of possible indicators.

That ranking is also the ranking of national savings rates, with the US and the UK at the bottom and Japan and Russia at the top.

Of course the normal antidote to both an international and a national savings surplus is a reduction in interest rates.

Any or all of these policies will raise national savings in deficit countries and rebalance the international accounts.

This will require a rise in US national savings and a rise in spending in the rest of the world.

Therefore, they have no effect on national savings and, consequently, on the current external account.

The tricks of economic growth and development, therefore, are simply a matter of increasing national savings and investment.

Some of my older readers may remember national savings drives.

Indeed, after years in negative territory, the national savings rate jumped to more than 3 percent during the holidays.

Its banks are unpolluted by toxic assets; hardly a ripple disturbs its vast pools of national savings.

The creation of national savings funds in commodity-flush countries is another good idea.

And for a century after 1520, the Chinese national savings rate was actually negative.

China has a high national savings rate and enjoys social and political stability.

Echoing the increase in the national savings rate, 63% plan to save more money in 2010.

The national savings rate is essentially zero .

And as a percentage of GDP, national savings, net of both public and private borrowing, has fallen from plus 11% in 1991 to minus 5% today.

Any or all of thesepolicies will raise national savings in deficit countries and rebalance theinternational accounts.

The new 37th issue of National Savings Certificates is a must for any taxpayer.

When household incomes catch up with overall growth, they will probably start consuming more and gross national savings will fall.

Just how far the government is to blame for a surge in China's national savings rate last decade is controversial.

The US and the UK had average national savings rates of 17 per cent and 15 per cent of GDP, respectively, between 1998 and 2002.

In 2002, National Savings Deposit Balance is 10 trillion Yuan (USD$1. 2T), which equals GDP of China in that year.

Research into the Relationship between Governmental Savings, Non-governmental Savings and Gross National Savings

National savings certificates likely to reduce in importance

The Influence of China's Tax System on National Savings Tendency

On the governmental savings in the transformational structure of national savings of China