China's High Savings : Drivers, Prospects, and Policies /

China's high national savings rate-one of the highest in the world-is at the heart of its external/internal imbalances. High savings finance elevated investment when held domestically, or lead to large external imbalances when they flow abroad. Today, high savings mostly emanate from the househ...

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Main Author: Zhang, Longmei
Other Authors: Brooks, Ray, Ding, Ding, Ding, Haiyan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/277
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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