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If that trend continues, it will prevent further erosion of household wealth and strengthen the banks’ capital positions.
If they do, the sale of foreclosed properties will continue to depress house prices, reducing household wealth and hurting financial institutions.
Annual household consumption is now double the level achieved in the Soviet Union’s dying days.
When oil prices collapsed in the mid-1980s, household consumption collapsed; soon after, so did the Soviet Union.
The downturn was a distinctive balance-sheet recession that caused sizeable declines in household wealth and necessitated painful deleveraging.
Household savings are finally beginning to rise, which is good for the long-run health of household finances, but disastrous for economic growth.
But the same is true in China: anti-inflation protests are now roiling both countries, owing mainly to rising energy, food, and raw-material prices, with food accounting for one-third of household spending in China and around 45% in India.
Many activities that were previously performed “for free” (often within a household), such as sex, home maintenance, and care for the sick and elderly, are now frequently outsourced and counted as economic output.
This time, the unemployment rate and household and government debt are much higher.
Another consequence of China’s skewed growth model has been a decline in household income as a share of GDP, from 70% in 1990 to 60% in 2009, whereas in the US, for example, the ratio has remained stable, at around 80% of GDP.
With about 80% of Chinese household savings deposited in banks, this implicit tax on savings has had a major economic impact, reinforcing Chinese households’ tendency to save and thus undermining consumption growth and exacerbating global imbalances.
Data from the US – rising unemployment, falling household consumption, still declining industrial production, and a weak housing market – suggest that America’s recession is not over yet.
Compare this to Brazil in 2000, when the richest 10% of Brazilians accounted for 47% of total household spending.
Again, an analogy with household debt readily suggests itself.
The government has taken some positive steps: the air quality around Beijing, for example, has improved considerably this winter, thanks to efforts to shut down polluting factories and replace coal with natural gas for household heating.
My household uses CFLs, and I enjoy knowing that I am causing fewer CO2 emissions and spending less money.
This requires data upon which to base the rise in mortality, usually derived by conducting a household survey on a random sample of the population.
Typically, interviewers ask the head of the household to disclose the number and demographic characteristics of pre-war household members, whether any of the people in the pre-war household had died between the pre-war period and the time of the survey, and the date of any household member’s death.
If household surveys are carried out properly, the number of excess deaths during the war can be estimated within a range of statistical uncertainty.
America needs to rein in its household and fiscal spending, so that it can cut the amount of money that it borrows and owes.
It is not easy to do this when the rich get richer – enjoying their biggest spree since the Roaring Twenties – and average household income remains stagnant for the third decade running.
In 1988 and 1995, China’s Gini coefficient of household wealth was just 0.34 and 0.4, respectively.
Recovery began only after the balance-sheet weaknesses in the financial, household, and corporate sectors were addressed.
Monetary easing and fiscal stimulus, combined with structural measures to restore private firms to financial health, would stimulate household expenditure and business investment.
Indeed, the impact of real exchange-rate depreciation on growth is likely to be short-lived unless increased corporate profits in the export sector lead to higher household consumption and investment.
That means paying for it on the public-sector side, via taxes and a reduction in household consumption (and in wealth accumulation).
Democratic InequalityCHICAGO – Why did the household savings rate in the United States plummet before the Great Recession?
Bertrand and Morse find that in the years before the crisis, in areas (usually states) where consumption was high among households in the top fifth of the income distribution, household consumption was high at lower income levels as well.
To estimate the number of poor in a country requires a household survey of consumption.
But six of the 49 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have never had a household survey, and only 28 countries have had one in the past seven years.
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