Disinvestment
Disinvestment reduces investment exposure or productive assets through asset sales, capital withdrawal, depreciation, or reduced spending.
Investment-expenditure and capital-goods concepts used in macro demand and business-cycle analysis.
Investment Expenditure and Goods covers capital formation, investment spending, saving behavior, productivity, depreciation, obsolescence, and public investment funds used in finance and macro analysis.
Use these pages when productive capacity, replacement investment, capital intensity, productivity, or investment demand changes growth, margins, valuation, or public-sector investment assumptions. It sits inside Capital Stock, Formation, and Investment, so readers can move up when the broader economics context matters.
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| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Disinvestment | Disinvestment reduces investment exposure or productive assets through asset sales, capital withdrawal, depreciation, or reduced spending. |
| Gross Investment | Gross investment is total spending on capital goods before deducting depreciation or capital consumption. |
| Investment Expenditure | Investment expenditure is spending on capital goods, structures, equipment, and inventories that expands or maintains productive capacity. |
| Investment Goods | Investment goods are capital goods purchased to produce future goods or services rather than for immediate consumption. |
| Investment in Stocks and Work in Progress | Investment in stocks and work in progress captures inventory accumulation and unfinished production included in national accounts investment. |
| Net Investment | Net investment is investment remaining after depreciation, indicating whether productive capacity is expanding or shrinking. |
| Replacement Investment | Replacement investment involves purchasing machinery and equipment by a producer to maintain output capacity lost through deterioration and scrapping of existing machinery. |
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Disinvestment reduces investment exposure or productive assets through asset sales, capital withdrawal, depreciation, or reduced spending.
Gross investment is total spending on capital goods before deducting depreciation or capital consumption.
Investment expenditure is spending on capital goods, structures, equipment, and inventories that expands or maintains productive capacity.
Investment goods are capital goods purchased to produce future goods or services rather than for immediate consumption.
Investment in stocks and work in progress captures inventory accumulation and unfinished production included in national accounts investment.
Net investment is investment remaining after depreciation, indicating whether productive capacity is expanding or shrinking.
Replacement investment involves purchasing machinery and equipment by a producer to maintain output capacity lost through deterioration and scrapping of existing machinery.