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Unless the real rate of interest exceeds the growth rate of real wages by a significant margin, payment of a reasonable pension rate requires a high contribution rate or a high active worklife ratio.
Does foreign direct investment affect national saving both directly and indirectly through the rate of economic growth? It depends on which countries you're talking about. Pacific Basin countries appear to differ markedly from some other developing countries.
The right combination of orthodox and heterodox policies can bring inflation down and induce sustained economic recovery in Mexico-- and has done so. But a few loose ends remain: a sharp decline in private savings and the continuing appreciation of the peso.
The creation of a North American free trade area and other trading blocs is likely to result in trade diversion in sectors where protection is exercised through voluntary export restraints (VERs). Such trade diversion will benefit the improving country but will hurt exporting countries outside the trading bloc.