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Contents: 1) Introduction. 2) Growth of Saving and Capital formation. 3) Marginal Propensities to Save and Invest. 4) Propensities in the Fifties and Sixties. 5) Saving our of Permanent and Transient Income. 6) Some Disaggregative Estimates. 7) Tangible Wealth and Asset Composition. Appendix A) The Rural Household Savings Series. B) Net Capital Formation in Agricultural Series. C) Tangible Wealth of Rural Households. Bibliography.