Household savings in India have been in a tailspin over the past five years, hitting a nearly two-decade low. The household savings rate stood at 17.2% of gross domestic product in 2017-18; that's only marginally up from 17.1% in 2016-17, which was the lowest since 1996-97, and the savings rate has dropped in almost every year since 2011-12, when it was 23.6% of GDP.
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In a developing economy, growth is a result of investments that feed on domestic …
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