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Quarterly national accounts for institutional sectors
Quarterly National Sector Accounts
Quarterly national accounts for institutional sectors - 4th Quarter 2009
31 March 2010

Summary
In 2009 the net borrowing of the Portuguese economy decreased to 9.4% of GDP, 0,6 percentage points less than the observed in 2008. This slight improvement reflected the increase of the net lending of the households and of the financial corporations sectors and the decrease of the net borrowing of the
non-financial corporations sector. The improvement of the net lending/borrowing of the households, the financial corporations and the non-financial corporations sectors reflects both the increase of the savings and the reduction of investment.  The improvement of the net lending/borrowing of these sectors, that together presented a null net balance in 2009, more than compensated the increase of the net borrowing of the general government sector. In fact, general government net borrowing stood at the same level of the total economy.
It is worth mentioning that the gross saving rate of households increased considerably in 2009 to 8.8% of their disposable income, 2.4 percentage points more than the observed in 2008.

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