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Uncertainty bred fear, causing banks, businesses, and households to hoard cash.
Such remittances enabled thousands of Jamaicans, for example, to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, when storm damage was estimated at more than one-quarter of the country's annual GDP and nearly three households in four reported damage.
After Hurricane Gilbert, remittances increased by 25 cents for each dollar of hurricane damage that households incurred.
Nonetheless, the importance of remittances to households in poor countries, especially during periods of external shock, holds two lessons.
The net national saving rate (businesses, households, and the government combined) stood at just 2.9% of national income in mid-2015, less than half the 6.3% average over the final three decades of the twentieth century.
The point is that debt-fueled demand emanates from particular households in particular regions for particular goods.
So, as lending dries up, borrowing households can no longer spend, and demand for certain goods changes disproportionately, especially in areas that boomed earlier.
Populist government spending and the inability of the supply side of the economy to keep pace has, in turn, led to elevated inflation, while Indian households, worried that no asset looks safe, have taken to investing in gold.
Households in the United States, having spent too much, are now weighed down by debt.
Both bubbles have long since burst, and US households are now dealing with post-bubble financial devastation – namely, underwater assets, record-high debt, and profound shortages of savings.
As a result, American households have hunkered down as never before.
In the early 1980’s, Japanese households were saving about 15% of their after-tax incomes.
Those were the days of sharply rising incomes, when Japanese households could increase their consumption rapidly while adding significant amounts to their savings.
But the 1990’s was a decade of slow growth, and households devoted a rising share of their incomes to maintaining their level of consumer spending.
But they often do much more: they provide unnecessary support to middle-class households – or, worse, subsidize landlords indirectly by helping tenants pay the rent.
Indeed, certain types of capital-flow management – including limiting domestic debt denominated in foreign currency for both firms and households – have been shown to increase resilience.
Unemployment will continue to rise, placing pressure on households, governments, and banks.
America’s net national saving rate – the sum of saving by businesses, households, and the government sector – stood at just 2.1% of national income in the third quarter of 2017.
One of the lingering issues of the rural household responsibility system, for example, was unclear property rights relating to farm land, which is still legally owned collectively by local farmers, even though land-use rights were contracted to the individual households for 30 years.
In poor households, they are also likely to receive less food than boys, placing their physical health and development at even greater risk.
That is certainly good news, especially if the source of stabilization is shifted from the European Central Bank’s unconventional policies to more durable endogenous balance-sheet healing among a broader set of financial institutions, non-financial firms, and households.
Her “right to buy” policy triggered an upward spiral in house prices, which encouraged households to take on more and more debt.
Spending cuts are being put in place by governments and households alike, with varying degrees of public acceptance and social unrest.
Foreigners have been keen on buying US stocks and bonds, while American businesses and households used that capital to support their investment and spending.
Trillions of dollars of paper wealth already factored into spending decisions by households, firms, and government would disappear.
In parts of Africa and Latin America, children are better nourished and have more access to education in female-headed households where the woman has a job than in two-parent households where the man earns the income.
Children from female-headed households in Kenya, Malawi, and Jamaica, for example, do as well or better than children from male-headed households in their long-term nutritional and health status, despite lower household income.
And, thanks to the large pool of savings generated by Chinese households and state-owned companies, the Chinese economy can for the time being bear the waste and misallocation implied by such crony capitalism.
The US government, through decades of deficit spending and advocacy of policies that encourage households to consume rather than save, has forced America to rely on foreign saving for far too long.
The answer may be that credit markets are more developed in advanced economies than they are in emerging countries, particularly in terms of the degree to which households are able to borrow.
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