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savings remained more or less stable as a result of a substantial
increase in the savings of both the private and the public sector,
there was a decline in the share of the household sector in GDS
from 94.3 per cent in 2001–02 to 68.4 per cent in 2006–07.
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Table 8.4 gives the savings and investment details in India dur-
ing the Ninth and Tenth Five Year Plans.
INVESTMENT
As per The Penguin Dictionary of Economics , “Strictly defi ned,
investment is expenditure on real capital goods… In this sense,
investment is the amount by which the stock of capital of a fi rm or
economy changes, once we have allowed for replacement of capital
which is scrapped.” Real capital goods could refer ...