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Given the
savings
the country has built up, reflected in bulging foreign-exchange reserves, the central government has the fiscal room to afford it.
Those revenues could then be used to improve health services and strengthen the social safety net, thereby removing the need for Chinese households to maintain high precautionary
savings.
With the growth of private savings, the capital restructuring of SOEs (putting private investors in control) without outright sales of state assets (ie, public redistribution of the capital stock) becomes feasible in both economic and political terms.
That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.
If income becomes too concentrated too quickly, desired investment will tend to fall short of available savings, creating a Keynesian macroeconomic imbalance.
Social security is a paternalistic form of forced
savings
for old age, preventing individuals from consuming and saving as they please.
For example, in deciding how their pension
savings
will be allocated, most people simply choose the default option in their employer-offered plan.
Often, the default option is unsuitable for most individuals – for instance, it typically allocates all
savings
to low-return money-market funds.
One response is to point out that most plans already have a default option that determines
savings
allocations.
When both bubbles burst, over-extended US households had no choice but to cut back and rebuild their damaged balance sheets by paying down outsize debt burdens and rebuilding depleted
savings.
Thus, reducing it would require macroeconomic policies to reduce domestic expenditures and increase domestic
savings.
But if the deficit countries spend less while the surplus countries don’t compensate by
savings
less and spending more – especially on private and public consumption – then excess productive capacity will meet a lack of aggregate demand, leading to another slump in global economic growth.
Third, over-saving countries like China and emerging Asia, Germany, and Japan should implement policies that reduce their
savings
and current-account surpluses.
Specifically, China and emerging Asia should implement reforms that reduce the need for precautionary
savings
and let their currencies appreciate;Germany should maintain its fiscal stimulus and extend it into 2011, rather than starting its ill-conceived fiscal austerity now; and Japan should pursue measures to reduce its current-account surplus and stimulate real incomes and consumption.
Countries that can still afford fiscal stimulus and need to reduce their
savings
and increase spending should contribute to the global current-account adjustment – via currency adjustments and expenditure increases – in order to prevent a global shortage of aggregate demand.
And, even at such a low level of investment, Brazil’s current-account deficit is more than 2% of GDP, exposing an alarming paucity of domestic
savings.
With Brazil’s new middle class focused on the consumption patterns commensurate with its status, the additional
savings
must come from the public sector – a task that previous governments found politically unmanageable.
The political challenge for Rousseff’s administration is to channel those
savings
to new public investment or to tax incentives for private investment, rather than adding to current expenditures.
A key determinant is national
savings.
America’s multilateral trade deficit will not be significantly narrowed until America saves significantly more; while the Great Recession induced higher household
savings
(which were near zero), this has been more than offset by the increased government deficits.
The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that automation could boost global productivity growth by 0.8-1.4% annually, generating large
savings
and performance gains for businesses.
For the past three and a half decades, the principal shocks have not been inflationary, like the 1973 and 1979 oil crises, but rather deflationary, like the US
savings
and loan crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, the 1997 Asian crisis, the 2000 dot-com bust, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the 2007 subprime collapse that began in the US, and the 2010 European debt crash.
The associations – of carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, and so on – enable pooled savings, provide opportunities to upgrade skills, and create a form of market regulation.
Second, for most global investors, these economies’ bonds are a quasi-automatic component of portfolio allocations, so their governments’ budget deficits are financed in part by other countries’
savings.
First, India has considerable resources of its own to put towards growth, and has proven itself skilled at the art of channelling domestic
savings
into productive investments.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and others have blamed the financial crisis of 2008 on a global
savings
glut, which fuelled flows of money from high-savings emerging-market economies – especially in Asia – that run chronic balance-of-payments surpluses.
According to this school of thought, excessive
savings
pushed long-term interest rates down to rock-bottom levels, leading to asset bubbles in the United States and elsewhere.
It reminds us that much of success in a capitalist society is based on cultural and historical factors that produce qualities such as innovativeness, willingness to tolerate risk, and willingness to defer gratification through
savings
and education.
Widespread corruption has bred deep discontent: workers protest the Enron-like bilking of their life savings, townspeople fight against illegal land seizures, and villagers battle injustices – small and large – on a daily basis.
This would bring massive savings, which could be reinvested in technological advances, thereby further equipping Europe’s navies to meet future threats.
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