The experiences of five Asian countries whose social security schemes have evolved sufficiently to have exerted considerable impact on the savings and investment process are examined. Social security institutions...
The transaction costs of lending to the small-scale sector by different financial institutions in a developing country are estimated. The transaction costs of lending are comprised of administrative costs...
The financial structure in Kenya is fairly well developed and has the necessary institutional and functional diversity to play a significant role in ensuring full employment and a minimum level of living...
The relationships between the earnings and portfolios of the commercial banks of Singapore, the Philippines, and Tailand in 1975-76 are examined. The hypothesis that variations in the portfolio composition...
The impact of contractual savings on resource mobilization and the pattern of allocation of the funds thus mobilized were examined in order to assess the effect on economic development. Contractual savings...
Studies on the determinants of household saving behavior are reviewed. The specific characteristics of the relationship between saving and income are confusing. In poorer countries, the MPS is an increasing...
A systematic procedure for estimating household saving in a developing country, where saving is defined as the change in earned surplus and is measured as the change in a sector's asset holding less the...
The relationship between government taxation of petroleum products and increases in the prices of oil products is examined. Price and tax data collected from 64 developing and developed countries for 1973...