Private Saving in Colombia /

This paper studies the main determinants of the sharp decline in Colombia's private saving rate which accompanied the steep deterioration of the country's external current account deficit in the 1990s. The paper rejects current arguments pointing to a consumption boom and corporate behavio...

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1. Verfasser: Ortega, Juan
Weitere Verfasser: Lopez Mejia, Alejandro
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/171
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF
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