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© 1998 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank

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International Evidence on the Determinants of Private Saving

Paul R. Masson, Tamim Bayoumi, and Hossein Samiei

A broad set of possible determinants of private saving behavior is examined using data for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Both time-series and crosssectional estimates are obtained. Results suggest that there is a partial offset on private saving of changes in public saving and (for developing countries) in foreign saving, that demographics and growth are important determinants of private saving rates, and that interest rates and terms of trade have positive, but less robust, effects. Increases in per capita gross domestic product seem to increase saving at low income levels (relative to the United States) but decrease it at higher ones.


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