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Orientador: Jose Pedro Macarini / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T09:31:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_AlexandreXavierda_M.pdf: 973191 bytes, checksum: 9e62c2fdf5d91f67742ba34670a52ab8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho investiga a performance do PIB brasileiro durante os últimos cinqüenta anos. Sua hipótese-central repousa na suposição de que o crescimento econômico nas economias periféricas é dependente da contribuição de ajuda financeira internacional para se dar. Em outras palavras, aqui se adota a suposição de que o crescimento econômico brasileiro gera a expansão na demanda por importações numa taxa que não pode ser sustentada pelas exportações. Isso exige a ajuda externa para que elas não sejam limitadas. Caso a limitação tenha lugar, o crescimento econômico potencial não se realizará. Este trabalho discute a teoria que suporta esta abordagem de interpretação sobre o crescimento econômico e fornece uma análise empírica da experiência econômica brasileira entre 1956 e 2004. Além disso, serão apontadas algumas insuficiências da teoria na explicação da dinâmica da economia brasileira, especialmente depois das reformas dos anos noventa. O que se busca é entender o desempenho da economia brasileira como também a eficiência da teoria como instrumento de análise / Abstract: This research investigated the Brazilian GDP performance during the last fifty years. Its central hypothesis relies on the assumption that the economic growth in peripherals economies is dependent of the international financial contribution to take place. In other words, here we adopt the assumption that the Brazilian economic growth generates demands for importation in a ratio that cannot be supported by exports, what request external financial help to avoid restrictions. If these restrictions take place, the potential economic growth will be frustrated. This work discusses the theory that supports this analytical approach of economic growth and provides an empirical study of Brazilian economic experience between 1956 and 2004. In addition, we point out some insufficiencies of this approach in explaining appropriately the Brazilian economic dynamic, especially after the nineties years¿ reforms. The purposes of this research are analyze the Brazilian economy performance and also the efficiency of this theory as analytical tool / Mestrado / Economia Brasileira / Mestre em Ciências Econômicas

Magister Economicae - MEcon / In South Africa, as in many developing countries, most households are poor and do not save, as a result of which they do not acquire any positive net worth and which also constrains access to formal means of finance. South Africa is a consuming nation, with increasing ratios of household consumption resulting in dissaving and often unsustainable levels of household debt, which is also stimulated by the current lower level of interest rates. This situation is worse amongst poorhouseholds who also often experience financial shocks, for instance because of the death of family membersas a result of HIV/AIDS. This report provided an overview of household saving in South Africa for the period 1983 to 2003. It identified the main factors responsible for the lack of a commitment to saving which are particularly relevant in the case of poor households. / South Africa

This study is an analysis of the relationship between domestic savings and three economic indicators in the Republic of Korea during the 1950s through 1980s. While domestic saving is affected by many economic phenomena, the analysis is confined to national income, exports, and inflation. The study is divided into five chapters. These are entitled (1) Introduction, (2) Domestic Savings, (3) Income and Domestic Savings, (4) Exports and Domestic Savings, (5) Inflation and Domestic Savings. In chapter I, Korea and the Korean economy are introduced, and the scope of the study is stated. Chapter II reviews the related realm of domestic savings: definition, kinds, and determinants of domestic savings. Chapter III presents the relationship between different incomes and domestic savings, and shows non-labor income contributes more powerfully to the formation of domestic savings than labor income. Chapter IV contains effects of exports, and hypothesis testing. The effect of exports suggests that export expansion affects domestic savings positively via an increase in gross national product. Chapter V deals with the correlation between inflation and domestic savings, and its testing. The correlation between inflation and domestic savings is not generally clear except for some specific cases.

A Research Report submitted in partial fulfilment of the Degree of Master of Commerce (Economics/Economic Science) in the School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, September 2018 / This study investigates the determinants of household savings in South Africa using panel data estimation techniques and National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) data for the period 2008-2015. Results show that household savings habits in South Africa are strongly driven by sociodemographic factors such as income, relative income, asset ownership and white population group representation. Whereas household size, home ownership, household expenditure and black population group representation remain plausible arguments for household dissaving in South Africa. To some extent, these findings imply that strategies to increase household savings in South Africa should improve the distribution of income and employment among the population. There is also a need for an in-depth analysis as to why and how the country’s black population can be encouraged to improve on household savings. / XL2019

This paper examines the implications of a simplified social security program on future wages and interest rates in the context of uncertainty. Individual consumption-savings and portfolio decisions are integrated into stochastic growth models to find how a social security program alters intermediate and long-run equilibrium factor payments. Two forms of uncertainty are used, namely, production uncertainty and labor force participation. In the first part of this paper recent arguments over how social security affects individual savings are presented and evaluated. Conclusions are made that Feldstein's tax and benefit effects represent the dominant influences on personal savings behavior. A neo-classical growth model is then built, that integrates the two period consumption savings decisions of individuals, and long-run equilibrium wages and interest rates are derived. A social security program is then introduced, causing wages to fall and interest rates to rise. Production uncertainty is then added to the model to find how social security impacts on factor payments via individual consumption and portfolio decisions. Certain questions regarding a social security program are then examined within the production uncertainty model. They include: determining the optimal amount of social security; examining the implications of a fully funded program; studying the relationship between future labor force participation and private investment; examining if optimal social security varies, depending on the individual's wage income and introducing technological growth to see how it effects optimal savings. An alternative form of uncertainty, labor force participation, is then substituted into the model to see if the implications of social security differ, depending on the form of uncertainty. The results are similar to those found in the production uncertainty model. In addition, it is shown that social security tends to increase the variance of future stochastic wages. / Ph. D.