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There are important differences between the structure of the Japanese and the US economies, including the enormously high level of liquid assets held by Japanese households, which tends to lead to lower consumption when interest rates fall.

More than half of those jobs – decent jobs that could raise incomes and living standards, particularly for poor households – would go to women.

For example, suppose that you have many workers qualified and skilled to work in construction, but households have decided that their houses are more than large enough, and wish to fill them with manufactured goods.

The percentage of black households earning over $50,000 a year (adjusted for inflation) has more than tripled over the last four decades, from 9.1% in 1967 to 27.8% in 2001.

In 2008, these elevated debt levels – in banks, businesses, households, and governments – sparked the financial crisis.

Congressional Republicans will most likely start with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food to low-income households.

In pursuit of protein-rich meals, Nkhoma is pushing her cluster of villages, representing a thousand households in all, to begin raising chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk, and “exotic” vegetables such as cabbage for vitamins.

Final sales to households, businesses, and foreign buyers rose at only a 1.1% annual rate, even slower than earlier in the year.

Despite their declining incomes, households raised their spending in early 2012 at a rapid pace by cutting their saving rate to just 3.7%.

Worse, the recovery is likely to be anemic and sub-par – well below potential for a couple of years, if not longer – as the burden of debts and leverage of the private sector combine with rising public sector debts to limit the ability of households, financial firms, and corporations to lend, borrow, spend, consume, and invest.

In the only comprehensive overview based on surveys of businesses and households, the World Bank puts the total direct cost of corruption at $1 trillion annually.

But such tax reforms are likely to face strong resistance: about half of all South Korean households and businesses paid no income or corporate tax in 2014.

And a renewed commitment to sound public finances will not turn wary European households into cheerful spenders.

As in Delhi, households in Mexico City found numerous ways to skirt the rules.

By delivering electricity at lower prices than their customers would otherwise have to pay for kerosene lighting, M-KOPA has delivered solar power to more than 330,000 low-income households in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Reducing barriers to the Chinese market would benefit not only foreign producers, but also Chinese households and firms that use imported parts.

This effect – which is not sufficiently limited by existing World Trade Organization rules – undermines efficient resource allocation and hurts not only workers in countries outside an FTA, but also, in many cases, low-income households within it.

In Kenya, for example, Maasai women in Magadi who have been trained to install solar power have brought electricity to 2,000 households in just two years.

In several countries, debt-financed housing booms have left households and companies over-leveraged; and governments have reduced deficits to contain their own debt.

The Secular Stagnation Hypothesis accounts well for the mistakes made in the eurozone in the aftermath of the global recession, when sovereigns attempted to deleverage while companies and households were unwilling to spend, and the ECB was keeping monetary policy relatively tight.

Retail banking, however, remains segmented by national borders, so that households and smaller producers have not been much affected.

While cheap money had little impact on business investment, it fueled a real estate bubble, which is now bursting, jeopardizing households that borrowed against rising home values to sustain consumption.

But households could continue to take money out of their houses only as long as prices continued to rise and interest rates remained low.

Making matters worse, unrestrained government spending further buoyed the economy during the Bush years, with fiscal deficits reaching new heights, making it difficult for the government to step in now to shore up economic growth as households curtail consumption.

The World Bank estimates that one in five Indians is poor, while only 61% of poor households have reliable electricity and just 6% have access to tap water.

Of course, such taxes on firms are always passed on to households – usually through straightforward price hikes, and, in France, also through unemployment.

And yet we also know that the pace of change is faster than ever before, and that governments, businesses, and households are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up.

Many more economic agents face serious credit and solvency problems, including millions of households in the US, UK, and the Eurozone with excessive mortgages, hundreds of bankrupt sub-prime mortgage lenders, a growing number of distressed homebuilders, many highly leveraged and distressed financial institutions, and, increasingly, corporate-sector firms.

Banks are creatively tapping into migrant worker remittances, multiple-family households, and other previously overlooked sources of potential income and creditworthiness.

It is far more defensible and correct to argue that everyone – bankers, households, regulators, and politicians – contributed to (and took credit for) the boom while it lasted, only to point fingers at one another when it collapsed.

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