Other hacked tweets satirized the Russian government's expected decision to abolish individual savings accounts in the country's pension program.

It invested in education and technology, pushed a high savings rate, enacted a strong and effective affirmative action program, and adopted sound macroeconomic policies.

Savings

Low savings countries cannot easily adjust without an equivalent adjustment in high savings countries, because their low savings rates may have been caused by high savings abroad.

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There is also a financial angle, the importance of which depends on the mix of new government borrowing, debt monetization, and repatriation of Japanese savings that is used to fund Japan's reconstruction program.

Both the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses confuse accounting outcomes with causes.

Japan s Savings Crisis

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Apart from accounting for the global divergence in savings rates, tight credit constraints in China might explain the country s high, and rising, savings rate especially as the large rise in national savings is attributable mostly to household savings.

Balancing China s High Savings

Savings rates shot up.

We have enormous energy savings.

(b) To achieve cost savings

Fadil's life savings were gone.

These are Sami's life savings.

Sami stole Layla's life savings.

Generally speaking, savings are increasing.

Savings on prior period obligations

For nearly a decade, capital from high savings countries like Germany flowed to low savings countries like Spain.

Important benefits of trade and transport facilitation measures relate to time savings, which often outweigh direct cost savings.

Africa needed capital, but lacked savings.

Why Are Savings Patterns So Different?

This story is fundamentally different from the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses, and it leads to dramatically different policies.

The Asia Pacific region has the highest savings rate in the world, although intercountry variations in savings rates have been noticed.

For 2002, there were savings of 473,062 kWh for 2003, average energy savings were of the order of 27.6 per cent.

Savings are, of course, no bad thing.

Domestic savings, however, remain a major constraint.

Meanwhile, China s savings rate remains stubbornly high.

Talk abounds of a global savings glut.

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One problem the poor often have in accumulating savings is lack of easy access to savings accounts where they can deposit money.

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Government savings have fallen, especially in the United States and Japan, and household savings have virtually disappeared in some countries with housing booms.

Our customers get to enjoy huge CO2 savings.

The potential energy savings is very, very significant.

And savings are particularly good for developing countries.

Indeed, China has a rare problem excessive savings.

But that savings number hides something very critical.

America certainly does not have a savings glut.

America has a savings deficiency, not a glut.

CAMBRIDGE Japan is heading toward a savings crisis.