Public Expenditures on Social Programs and Household Consumption in China /

This paper shows that increasing government social expenditures can make a substantive contribution to increasing household consumption in China. The paper first undertakes an empirical study of the relationship between the savings rate and social expenditures for a panel of OECD countries and provi...

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Autor principal: Baldacci, Emanuele
Outros Autores: Callegari, Giovanni, Coady, David, Ding, Ding
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/069
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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Resumo:This paper shows that increasing government social expenditures can make a substantive contribution to increasing household consumption in China. The paper first undertakes an empirical study of the relationship between the savings rate and social expenditures for a panel of OECD countries and provides illustrative estimates of their implications for China. It then applies a generational accounting framework to Chinese household income survey data. This analysis suggests that a sustained 1 percent of GDP increase in public expenditures, distributed equally across education, health, and pensions, would result in a permanent increase the household consumption ratio of 1u percentage points of GDP.
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