Public Expenditures on Social Programs and Household Consumption in China

Public Expenditures on Social Programs and Household Consumption in China
ISBN-10
1451982135
ISBN-13
9781451982138
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
28
Language
English
Published
2010-03-01
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Authors
Mr.Emanuele Baldacci, Mr.Manmohan S. Kumar, Mr.David Coady

Description

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 11⁄4 percentage points of GDP.

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