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Moreover, falling commodity prices will also “help increase household purchasing power.”
This implies that a fall in the rate at which bundles of mortgages can be sold on the market can have a strong impact on household spending, because lower long-term rates typically lead to waves of mortgage refinancing, leaving households with lower monthly payments – and thus higher disposable income.
Trump’s tax and spending plans will sharply reverse the budget consolidation enforced by Congress on Barack Obama’s administration, and household borrowing will expand dramatically if Trump fulfills his promise to reverse the bank regulations imposed after the 2008 financial crisis.
There are strong parallels to what happened in the United States in the past few years: many families felt crushed by their debts, so household consumption fell and has yet to recover.
Matters could get worse in 2011, as rising unemployment cuts household consumption.
China represents what might be called the Economic Security State: seeking to channel domestic savings into household consumption to sustain GDP growth and popular support, while using its investment power abroad to secure the commodities and energy that underpin its industrialization.
As it stands, millions of girls are often forced to forego education for reasons ranging from poverty to household responsibilities to child marriage.
This Parliament enacted a new Family Law in 2004 that mandates full equality between men and women as “head of household,” full authority for state courts in matters of divorce, creation of special family courts, and the possibility of maternal custody in the event of divorce.
In the realm of health, research in India has found that literacy leads to significantly better health outcomes – independent of household income.
As this year’s Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey shows, there are already massive disparities across major global cities (measured by the ratio of median home prices to median household income).
Mortgage rates are low in Hong Kong, but not zero, suggesting it is just about impossible for a median-income household to purchase a home there without access to additional funds from, say, a parent, or, if the buyer is an immigrant, from abroad.
In New York City, the median home price stands at 5.7 times median household income.
According to Greenspan, “Price stability is that state in which expected changes in the general price level do not effectively alter business and household decisions.”
Yet several South Korean companies, such as Samsung and Hyundai, have become global household names competing successfully against far more established brands, such as Sony and Honda.
In real terms, therefore, average household incomes are likely to remain flat or even shrink, undermining the UK economy’s crucial consumer-spending engine.
And China needs to rebalance its economy – shifting from construction and exports to household consumption as the main engine of growth – while it still has time.
A report in 2012 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimated that the circular economy concept could save the European Union alone $380 billion annually in materials for medium-lifespan consumer durables such as cars, furniture, and household electric appliances.
But Asia’s economies can still grow much faster than the developed West if they respond to prolonged stagnation by rebalancing their growth toward internal demand, especially household consumption.
These centers are not household names, but they deserve to be.
And, while data from firms suggest that job losses in the last three months were about 600,000, household surveys, which include self-employed workers and small entrepreneurs, suggest that those losses were above two million.
As a result, the household savings rate has risen from zero to 4% of disposable income.
But it must rise further, to 8%, in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.
America’s Saving SurpriseCAMBRIDGE – The household saving rate in the United States has tripled in the past three years.
Higher household saving depresses consumption because it is the difference between households’ after-tax income and what they spend.
Paying down debt on credit cards or mortgages also counts as saving – but increases in the value of existing assets like stocks or real estate do not, even though they increase the value of household wealth.
The nation’s net household saving rate is the difference between the saving of the savers and the dissaving of the dissavers.
The recent rise in the US household saving rate reversed a long-term decline that began 25 years ago.
Since after-tax personal income accounts for about 75% of GDP, a household saving rate of 6% translates into just 4.5% of GDP.
The combination of household and corporate saving brings total private saving to 7.5% of GDP.
So, despite the rise in the household saving rate, unless federal government policies change to shrink America’s future budget deficits, the US will continue to be dependent on capital inflows from the rest of the world.
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