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Their financial trust index, based on a large-scale survey of financial decision-makers in American households, did show a sharp fall in trust in late 2008 and early 2009, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
It is a symptom of America’s disgrace: pervasive discrimination against African Americans, reflected in median household income that is less than 60% that of white households.
In 2005, President George W. Bush’s administration made it far more difficult for households to declare bankruptcy and write off debt.
As long as households and companies continue to focus on deleveraging, these countries will continue to face balance-sheet recessions.
It is afflicted by a very different disease: a protracted balance-sheet recession that continues to hobble American households, whose consumption accounts for roughly 70% of GDP.
The same can be said for enhanced saving incentives, which would contribute to longer-term financial security for American households, most of which suffered massive wealth losses in the Great Recession.
Expanded individual retirement accounts and 401K pension schemes, special incentives for low-income households (most of which have no retirement plans), and an end to the financial repression that the Fed’s zero-interest-rate policy imposes on savers must also be part of the solution.
Meanwhile, low-income Greek households have borne the brunt of austerity.
With the IFC’s help, the Indian company Jain Irrigation – the second largest drip irrigation company in the world – has expanded its operations, resulting in water savings equal to annual consumption by roughly 15 million households.
Dramatic measures are needed to convince households and firms that the future will be different from the past.
In the early stages of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, Kenneth Rogoff and I noted that recovery from severe financial crises are protracted affairs, as it takes time for households and firms to work down the debts accumulated during the boom.
Economic growth tends to suffer: when poor households have many children, the education given to each child also tends to be reduced.
Second, governments, like individuals, households, and businesses, need to save for a rainy day.
Meanwhile, the consequences of failure to deal with the housing crisis – which triggered financial markets’ near-meltdown in 2008 – are continuing to be felt: further decline in real-estate prices, more foreclosures, and thus even greater stress on US households.
Most fossil-fuel subsidies can be traced to developing countries, where they drain budgets and provide transfers to wealthy households.
Real (inflation-adjusted) wages, incomes, and living standards for America’s poor and middle-class households are at best only trivially higher.
After-tax real income for the lowest quintile of US households was 49% higher in 2010 than in 1979, growing at an average rate of 1.3% annually.
To be sure, households in the 81st to 99th percentiles gained 64% in after-tax income, with the top 1% up by 201%, representing an average annual growth rate of 3.6% – far ahead of any other income group.
The CBO counts all of that growth as an increase in poor US households’ after-tax real income.
To make matters worse, in countries with limited public-health services, the cost of health care falls directly on the afflicted households.
The legacy of excess real-estate capacity and over-leveraged households makes recovery all the more difficult.
Most important, shadow banks’ activities must be regulated in a way that enhances transparency and deters excessive risk-taking, while allowing the sector to continue to contribute to financial-sector development by providing savings options to households and credit to small and medium-size firms.
In fact, households account for 65% of India’s national annual savings, compared to under 40% in China.
According to last year’s census, the country’s 247 million households, two-thirds of them rural, reported a rise in the literacy rate to 74%, from 65% in 2001.
Current levels of consumption are associated with over-extended governments and households, whose debt levels remain high, implying that more savings are required.
Given that migrants remitted $401 billion last year to developing countries alone, such progress is freeing up tens of billions of dollars for some of the world’s poorest households.
Rather, the principal energy consumer in Europe is individual households, where energy efficiency can be tripled in the coming years with the right political leadership, sufficient investment, and long-term commitment from Europeans themselves.
Power outages are routine in India, nearly half the country’s households lack any electricity at all, and modern highways are scarce.
And in recent months, US households that had not owned stocks in the past, fearful of missing out on the bull market, have joined the equity bandwagon.
More than 20% of French children from blue-collar households drop out of school without any diploma, compared to just 7% for children of senior managers or executives.
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