scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing investment and growth. Yet, the data and several case studies suggest that the … savings and investments were taxed in an arbitrary and unpredictable way, the credibility of a new regime could not be assumed … saving and investment rates tends to be a time consuming process. This also suggests that greater political instability and …

' associated with increasing the financing share of foreign savings. In fact, the evidence suggests the opposite: throughout the …

Chinese economy, including its unusually low labor share and unusually high saving and investment rates. Interestingly, the …

region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances …

rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …

politico-economic environment, reduces investment. As a consequence, income inequality and investment are inversely related …. Since investment is a primary engine of growth, this paper identifies a channel for an inverse relationship between income … are investment and an index of socio-political instability. Our results are robust to sensitivity analysis on the …

and investment. However, for growth, higher inequality tends to retard growth in poor countries and encourage growth in …

We document regularities in the distribution of relative incomes and patterns of investment in countries and over time …. We develop a quantitative version of the neoclassical growth model with a broad measure of capital in which investment … slowest growing countries in the model have growth rates and investment-output ratios similar to those in the data. In both …

, does not allow separation of the savings decisions of agents from the investment decisions of firms. Investment is … equilibrium used in macroeconomics characterizes both the savings-consumption decision and the investment decision, or … essentially passive: the "one good" assumption leads to a perfectly elastic investment supply; the absence of installation costs …