After the crisis ended investment rates resumed their growth at rate of 10% per year.

This rise in investment rate depends on many sectors of the economy.

Several countries with investment rates enviable by American standards are economic basket cases.

But junk bonds did not increase overall savings or investment rates.

Part of the reason for low investment rates lay in the inability to acquire capital from abroad.

Differences in the investment rates between countries very often mirror different levels of economic development and catching-up processes.

In large part because of our low investment rate, our technology base is rapidly eroding.

Moreover, the strictures against maximum investment rates were vindicated, as we have seen above.

Levine and Renelt showed that investment rate is a robust determinant of economic growth.

He also asserts that "the Reagan-Bush investment rate has dragged down productivity growth."

High domestic savings and investment rates helped propel Chile's economy to average growth rates of 8 percent during the 1990s.

If we held to this course over the next eight years, we would end up with a world-class investment rate without having to cut anyone's consumption.

What's lost in the preoccupation with rival savings and investment rates is a clear view of the U.S. economy.

But despite an infusion of foreign capital, the low Reagan-Bush investment rate has dragged down productivity growth.

Brazil's overall investment rate is expected to jump to 17 percent of gross national product this year from 15 percent last year.

Therefore, domestic saving rates would be uncorrelated with domestic investment rates.

Such inadequacies in institutional efficiency could affect growth indirectly by lowering the private marginal product of capital and investment rate.

There seems now to be a lag of about two years between a major change of interest-rate levels and investment rates.'

High savings and investment rates and high-quality education solidified the international leadership of these enterprises during the mid- to late 1990s.

Among these are the budget deficit, the low savings and investment rate and the failure to support research and development, and education.

Unless savings and investment rates rise, living standards will stagnate further; to move up the standards, the deficit must shrink.

Cutting investment rates during a slowdown, even though there is no inflation of any significance, has a procyclic effect and makes no economic sense.

These include the reduction of the yawning Federal budget deficit and an increase in America's modest savings and investment rates.

The real return refers to the surplus associated with an interest rate compared to an investment rate that matches the inflation rate.

However, the savings and investment rates were primarily dependent on the excess of the market rate of profit over the minimum compensation for bearing risk.