
After reading this chapter, you will be able to understand and appre-
ciate all that you need to know of savings, capital formation and
investment and relate them to Indian economy. In this chapter, we
study capital, savings and investment, how savings are the sources of
capital formation, and why are they comparatively low in developing
countries.
WHAT COMPRISES CAPITAL?
In ordinary language, capital is used in the sense of money. But in
economics, we use the term capital in a variety of senses. Machines,
tools and instruments, factories, canals, dams, trucks, raw materi-
als, etc. would all constitute capital in economics. Capital is de ...