National private savings rates may vary across countries because individuals of different nationalities have different consumption and savings patterns, because income distribution differs across countries, or because demographic structures vary. Using microdata from 10 Latin American countries, the project "Domestic Savings in Latin America and the Caribbean" seeks to assess the role of each of these three factors.
The research is being conducted by Dr. Néstor Gandelman, Academic Coordinator of Economics at Universidad ORT Uruguay the support of Braulio Britos, Research Assistant in the Department of Economics.