Last Year a Country Had $700 Billion of Saving and $900

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Essay

Last year a country had $700 billion of saving and $900 of investment. This year it had $1000 billion of saving and $800 billion of investment. By how much did net capital outflow change? By how much did net exports change? How is it possible for a country to have saving that is greater than investment?

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Definitions:

Time Management

The process of organizing and planning the best way to divide one's time among various activities to achieve efficiency and goals.

Spearman's Rank

A non-parametric method used to measure the strength and direction of the association between two ranked variables.

Ordinal

A type of qualitative data that represents categories with a meaningful order or ranking, but without a precise mathematical difference between them.

Mediating Variable

A variable that helps explain the relationship between the independent and dependent variables, acting as an intermediary in the cause-effect relation.