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What’s holding back private capital expenditure? The weakness of India’s unlisted corporate sector

What’s holding back private capital expenditure? The weakness of India’s unlisted corporate sector

What’s holding back private capital expenditure? The weakness of India’s unlisted corporate sector


Further, aggregate profits have been stable in the past decade, despite a decline in net corporate investments. This is because household spending (and lower savings), a larger fiscal deficit and a smaller current account deficit have supported overall profits. In this part, we discuss one of the most important reasons dragging India’s corporate capex down in recent years.