National Savings and Targets for the Federal Budget Balance in the United States.

The U.S. national savings rate has declined in the 1980s, with both public and private components falling. This paper discusses that decline and whether a policy response is needed. The drop in the private savings rate appears to reflect factors not easily reversible by policy and increases in publi...

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مؤلف مشترك: International Monetary Fund
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1989.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1989/103
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a The U.S. national savings rate has declined in the 1980s, with both public and private components falling. This paper discusses that decline and whether a policy response is needed. The drop in the private savings rate appears to reflect factors not easily reversible by policy and increases in public saving may thus provide the most effective means of bolstering national savings. Illustrative calculations based on two alternative frameworks indicate that a net national saving rate substantially above its current level could be a desirable objective and that a large federal budget surplus could be needed to that end. 
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