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.

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

Japan s Savings Crisis

Demand savings accounts

Term savings accounts

Any target can be justified as being a planned target or being closed to a planned target.

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

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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?

Pickpockets target tourists.

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.

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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The target is 100K.

That's our target shape.

This target was met.

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