Moreover, for too many investors, Portugal, with its poor growth prospects and insufficient domestic savings to fund the public sector deficit, looks like Greece.

With a large reservoir of surplus savings and a budget deficit of less than 2 of GDP, it has the wherewithal to fund such efforts.

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.

The Yètè Mali Savings Network or savings and loan cooperative.

Moreover, because dependence on foreign finance creates clear vulnerabilities, developing countries will seek to fund investment mainly from domestic savings, thereby limiting the size of their current account deficits.

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

Japan s Savings Crisis

Demand savings accounts

Term savings accounts

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.

The Multilateral Fund does not usually seek or assist in the arrangement of co financing however, there have been projects where resulting savings in energy usage have leveraged funding from other institutions.

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.

5. Also takes note of the results of the monitoring of the costs savings of recent modifications of the two track feature of the pension adjustment system and of the intention of the Board to continue to monitor those costs savings every two years, on the occasion of the actuarial valuations of the Fund

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.

Amendment no. 24 anchors the employer's duty to continue allotment of employees' pension, pension fund or directors insurance and savings plan during a pregnancy observation period, provided the employee maintains allotment of her share.

1. Takes note of the results of the monitoring of the costs savings of recent modifications of the two track feature of the pension adjustment system and the intention of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board to continue to monitor those costs savings every two years, on the occasion of the actuarial valuations of the Fund

(i) The Working Capital and Guarantee Fund has an established ceiling of 50 million approved by the Executive Committee and is maintained by income from interest on invested funds and savings from prior years' programmes.

A study of 20 savings and credit groups established under an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) project in Bangladesh11 showed that many women used their loans and income to gain access to agricultural land.

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.

A mission to assess progress in the transition support programme in November 2004 noted particularly strong progress in the areas of health, public sector and public finance management, savings policy and establishment of a petroleum fund.

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.

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

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.