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Leonardo Soto, an economist and president of Integral Consultores Group, said 95% of Venezuelans have no capacity to save. The assessment points to severe weakness in household financial resilience and limited scope to accumulate domestic capital. The excerpt does not provide the methodology, sample size or underlying income and spending data supporting the estimate.
If substantiated, the estimate would indicate that Venezuela’s recovery has yet to rebuild household financial buffers. That would constrain locally funded consumption and investment while limiting the pool of savings available to banks and other domestic financial intermediaries.
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Watch for publication of the estimate’s methodology and for household income, expenditure or savings data that either corroborate or challenge the claim that 95% of Venezuelans cannot save.