 Why did Colombian private savings decline in the early 1990s?Alejandro Lopez No 1713, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank Abstract: The sharp drop in private savings in the 1990s in Colombia can be attributed to a decline in private disposable income and, to a lesser extent, to growth in consumption. The permanent decline in private disposable income in Colombia between 1950 and 990 is closely linked to tax increases. This trend was accentuated in the early 1990s by a reduction in corporations'gross operating surplus. Contrary to the usual hypothesis, the author shows that in the 1990s private consumption had a relatively minor effect on national savings. He highlights two findings. First, private consumption's recent behavior can hardly be called a boom. It declined throughout the second half of the 1980s before finally showing an upturn equivalent to 2 percent of gross national product. Second, consumption of durable goods after trade reform cannot be blamed for the decline in private savings. In fact, savings began falling in 1988 and, until 1993, trade reform did not cause a stock adjustment of durable goods. Keywords: Fiscal&Monetary Policy; Economic Theory&Research; Environmental Economics&Policies; Banks&Banking Reform; Payment Systems&Infrastructure; Economic Theory&Research; Environmental Economics&Policies; Banks&Banking Reform; Inequality; Financial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:1713 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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