Savings mobilisation in developing countries

The Mobilisation of Savings for Growth and Development in Developing Countries

There is no doubt that the challenge of boosting savings is of great importance if Egypt was to sustain the achieved growth rate and increase its investment rate. This paper studies the role of financial liberalization in stimulating savings, investment and growth, with reference to the Egypt. The growth of output of any economy depends on capital accumulation, which in turn requires investment...

Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries

A formal model of green national accounting demonstrates that ‘genuine’ saving, net saving less the value of resource depletion and environmental degradation, is a useful indicator of sustainability. Country-level and regional calculations of genuine savings are presented for the period 1970-1993. Sub-Saharan Africa stands out as the region where the greatest dissipation of wealth is occurring....

Household Savings in Developing Countries: An Annotated Reading List

Energy Savings via FDI? Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries

In this paper we examine the influence of foreign direct investment inflows on energy intensities of developing countries empirically. We first show that a simple OLS estimation, as it is found in the literature, suggests energy intensity reductions from FDI inflows, which is consistent with the hypothesis of energy saving technology transfer via FDI. However, such a regression turns out to be ...

Remittances and savings in migrant-sending countries

The economies of a number of Pacific island countries have become increasingly dependent on the remittance of migrants. A series of recent International Labour Office research projects in the South Pacific focused on two countries—Tonga and Western Samoa (Brown 1994). Recommendations from these insights serve as a basis for a policy dialogue with the financial authorities of Pacific island coun...