India cannot afford to let its savings rate keep slipping

Economy in need of more funds to support investment

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Household financial savings can be encouraged in India by ensuring easy access to banking services. © Reuters

Jaydeep Mukherjee is a professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in New Delhi. Puneet Kumar Arora is an assistant professor of economics at the Delhi Technological University.

Like consumers in other nations, Indians saved up more money than usual during the pandemic -- and then went on a spree as concerns about COVID-19 began to fade. Now the worry is that Indians may be going a little overboard.

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