This study addresses why Mexico continues to show below-average economic growth rates in spite of displaying systematically higher domestic savings than other countries in the region. Using the wealth of relevant databases available for the country, the paper finds that a possible explanation is...

Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7 percent to 19.8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external saving from 6.9 to 0.5 percent between 1994 and 1995. The overall reduction was not more dramatic...

El objetivo de esta investigacion es responder las preguntas de cuanto ahorran los hogares en Mexico, que instrumentos se utiliza para ahorrar y que tipo de hogares ahorra. Para este proposito, se utiliza la informacion de tres Encuestas Nacionales de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares, levantadas...