Premise: For example in figure 4.1, although federal government saving increased as a share of GDP by 5.5 percentage points from 1990 to 2000, net national saving increased by only 1.1 percentage points because private saving as a share of GDP decreased by 4.9 percentage points over the same period.

Hypothesis: While net numbers look encouraging to the uninitiated, private savings figures tell a bleaker story.
Relation: neutral