An attempt has been made in this paper to forecast the growth in private corporate investment in 1981. Corporate investment covered here includes gross capital expenditure of all companies in the private and joint sectors. The level and composition of corporate investment in 1986 are also presented BASED on the data available with the term- lending institutions on the expected phasing of capital expenditures of projects sanctioned assistance by them, forecasts of private corporate sector investment are being made annually since 1970. The methodology tor the forecast was developed by C Rangarajan and the same methodology is used for the present forecast of corporate investment during 1987. Details of the technique followed as well as limitations of this approach have been explained by C Rangarajan in his earlier writings.1 The forecast of corporate investment is based on the gross capital expenditures of all private and joint sector companies sanctioned assistance by the financial institutions. Besides a forecast for 1987, the study presents data on the composition and level of private corporate investment in 1986.
