UK Household Rebalancing

Household Saving in the Uk

The research for this report was produced under the auspices of the IFS Savings Consortium, to whom the authors are grateful for financial assistance and many useful discussions and comments in the series of seminars over the last four years. The members of the IFS Savings Consortium are: Acknowledgements The research in this report was funded by the IFS Savings Consortium and co-funded by the ...

Service Rebalancing

Service rebalancing provides a way to determine an efficient division of effort between a client and its server. Decisions concerning this division of labor are made at runtime rather than at design time. Evaluating the current environment in which the client and server are executing and moving code between client and server based upon this evaluation can enhance the performance of client-serve...

Nowcasting household income in the UK: initial methodology

In order to properly understand changes in households' economic well-being, it is important to have measures which reflect the experience of the typical household and can also provide a description of the distribution. However, the complexities of producing such measures means they are typically only available with a significant time lag. This article therefore presents an initial methodolgy fo...

Household Food and Drink Waste in the UK

Rebalancing Growth in Asia

While many Asian emerging markets now run current account surpluses, reducing Asia’s overall excess savings is largely about modifying growth patterns and saving–investment balances in China. China accounts for about half of the total GDP in Asia ex-Japan but over two-thirds of the region’s total savings and current account surplus. One feature shared by all Asian economies is the surge in corp...