As the bottom panel shows, the flow of saving fell as a share of income. As you can see, things began to change after that. From about 2006, real per capita income began to grow faster. Over the five years to the end of 2010, it rose by 2.9 per cent per annum.
For example, consumers are drawn to platforms offering an attractive array of goods and services. Sellers in turn flock to those platforms in large numbers where they can find a broad base of possible purchasers of their products.