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Data associated with: Wealth, Financial Intermediation, and Saving in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division (VPS/IFD/CMF)

This broad and novel database of 52 countries over 2001–11, allowed a study that assesses the link between financial intermediation and saving. The study finds that the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region lags well behind other regions in terms of financial depth, as measured by gross private domestic financial assets. LAC countries also have a larger share of bank deposits and cash in the private sector portfolio, compared to non-bank assets (bonds and shares). Moreover, within the institutional investor industry, pension funds are relatively developed in the region, although they grew out of the compulsory pension systems in several countries that date back to the 1980s and 1990s. The findings also indicate that LAC countries have about 40 percent of gross private financial wealth invested abroad, but just 4 percent of gross private liabilities have that origin, which attests to region’s obstacles in tapping international markets. The countries in general present a small share of household and business saving being intermediated through the financial system. In the specific case of bank deposits, just 5 percent of household saving and 3 percent of business saving are kept in the banking system.

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Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/ouui680n
License Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 3.0 IGO
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Bebczuk, Ricardo N., 2015, Data associated with: Wealth, Financial Intermediation, and Saving in Latin America and the Caribbean, IDB Open Data, https://doi.org/10.60966/ouui680n
Issued date 2015-12-21
Modified date 2025-04-11
Tags/Keywords Banking System · Capital Markets · Corporate Savings · Domestic Savings · Financial Intermediaries · Institutional Investors
Language English
Temporal coverage 2001-2011
Geographic coverage
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Czechia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Thailand
The Netherlands
Türkiye
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
Regional coverage Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher
Inter-American Development Bank
Author
Bebczuk, Ricardo N.
Inter-American Development Bank
Data collection type Administrative Data
Statistical type Panel Data
Data structure Structured Data

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