Most countries have introduced some form of forced savings (such as compulsory contribution to pension and provident funds) and provide tax incentives to stimulate long term household savings.

Fostering the services sector could help in both reducing the rate of household savings and providing for more balanced growth.

Household savings are also encouraged by efficient capital markets, prudent fiscal and monetary policies, a strong legal system and good governance.

Of course, some worried about the collapse of the household savings rate, but few were overly concerned. In one of his last articles, Milton Friedman wrote that savings nowadays took the form of houses.

Apart from accounting for the global divergence in savings rates, tight credit constraints in China might explain the country s high, and rising, savings rate especially as the large rise in national savings is attributable mostly to household savings. This would mean that China s much publicized effort to boost domestic consumption might in fact call for appropriate credit market reforms.

Concurrent with diminishing labor income, government imposed ceilings on bank deposits the primary savings vehicle for most households have held down household capital income. This fall in income has been magnified by rising household savings rates, driven by insufficient insurance for health care and old age, the high cost of education, growing income inequality, and demographic trends.

Likewise, there is also virtually no credit card debt in Germany, or other reasons for US style household indebtedness. A normal German household is not on its last financial legs, and is therefore able to compensate for income losses by adjusting its savings.

These are financing and targeting by income segments, applying principles of redistribution and equity, incremental improvement, promoting household savings and the mobilization of private funding to the sector.

This, of course, is just the story of subprime mortgages in another guise. The result was increased US spending and the descent of measured household savings into negative territory.

And, while higher income and wealthier households have a buffer of savings to smooth consumption and avoid having to increase savings, most lower income households must save more, as banks and other lenders cut back on home equity loans and lower limits on credit cards. As a result, the household savings rate has risen from zero to 4 of disposable income.

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Moreover, as Japan s society ages, the household savings rate will decrease dramatically. This will make it difficult, if not impossible, for the domestic private sector to finance the budget deficit indefinitely.

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In the industrial countries, expansionary budgets, coupled with low interest rates and elevated asset prices, has led to consumption or credit fueled growth, particularly in Anglo Saxon countries. Government savings have fallen, especially in the United States and Japan, and household savings have virtually disappeared in some countries with housing booms.

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Household consumption

I think it starts household by household, under the same roof.

Booming home prices gave Americans the confidence, and the financial wherewithal, to spend more than their income. America s household savings rate was at levels not seen since the Great Depression, either negative or zero.

Growing income inequality in most countries before the Great Recession only made matters worse, by reducing household savings and increasing credit for consumption and asset purchases, rather than augmenting investment in new economic capacity.

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Term savings accounts

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CHICAGO Why did the household savings rate in the United States plummet before the Great Recession? Two of my colleagues at the University of Chicago, Marianne Bertrand and Adair Morse, offer an intriguing answer growing income inequality.

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Household income US 27,128

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(b) Selected household surveys

What's this? Household accounts?