Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India & its Impact on Industrial Development


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FDI in India has a significant role in development of India. FDI in India to various sectors can attain sustained economic growth and development through creation of jobs, expansion of existing manufacturing industries. The inflow of FDI in service sectors and construction and development sector attained substantial sustained economic growth and development through creation of jobs in India.




Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in India


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Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been established as a most helpful international capital to the host country compared to portfolio investment that has short term characteristics. Many world economies including India have obtained financial benefits from FDI inflows for their economic growth. However, the fact that FDI does not bring immediate returns to any economy cannot be denied. Similar to other investments, it needs certain time for its effusive contribution. Therefore, average time required for FDI to make its contribution to economic growth is an important aspect which needs to be studied. Keeping this backdrop, the present study is undertaken to examine the time lag required for FDI to make its utmost impact on economic growth in India. For this purpose, data on FDI and GDP (taken as an indicator of economic growth in the study) for the period 2000 01 to 2012-13 are analyzed with the help of lag regression models. The findings confirm that FDI requires a time period of three years to make its contribution to the economic growth in a significant and utmost favorable manner. Thus, there is need for the regular rise in FDI to bring continuous increase in economic growth. To attract sufficient FDI, Government of India needs to improve the investment climate for foreign capital through the maintenance of political as well as economic stability along with curbing corruption.




Multinationals and Foreign Investment in Economic Development


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During the past twenty or so years, foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have increased at rates approaching the astounding, especially so during the 1990s. While much of the increase was due to unprecedented cross-border mergers and acquisitions among high-income countries, the amount of FDI flowing to developing nations also grew substantially. This volume examines the economics of this FDI to developing countries. Some chapters are theoretical in nature, others empirical, and still others are largely policy-oriented. Topics covered include whether FDI makes an autonomous contribution to growth in these nations and whether or not 'spillovers' are generated by this investments. Also covered are effects of policy intervention by governments on FDI flows and whether non-economic factors (e.g. cultural factors) might figure as determinants of location of FDI.




Economic Growth in India


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With reference to India.




Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia


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During the 1990s, the governments of South Asian countries acted as ‘facilitators’ to attract FDI. As a result, the inflow of FDI increased. However, to become an attractive FDI destination as China, Singapore, or Brazil, South Asia has to improve the local conditions of doing business. This book, based on research that blends theory, empirical evidence, and policy, asks and attempts to answer a few core questions relevant to FDI policy in South Asian countries: Which major reforms have succeeded? What are the factors that influence FDI inflows? What has been the impact of FDI on macroeconomic performance? Which policy priorities/reforms needed to boost FDI are pending? These questions and answers should interest policy makers, academics, and all those interested in FDI in the South Asian region and in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.




FDI and Economic Growth in India


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The gains from foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows are unquestionable, as they contribute to economic growth through an increase in productivity by providing new investments, better technologies, and managerial skills to the host country. While trade liberalization facilitates economic growth through efficiency in production, by utilizing the abundant factors of production more effectively and absorbing better technologies from advanced countries, it may also harm the growth process through various forms of macro-economic instability and balance of payments crisis. Thus, it is a challenge for developing countries like India to explore the role FDI and trade liberalization should play in the country's economic growth. This book examines the relationship between FDI and economic growth in India, and it also identifies the motivating factors and problems of FDI inflows. The book employs bi-variate regression and ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation to examine the effect of FDI on gross domestic product (GDP) growth, using data for the period of 1974-2011. The results show that FDI is positively correlated with GDP growth and has a positive effect on India's economic growth.




India Goes Global


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In the past few years, India has emerged as a global economic power. It is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, the leading outsourcing destination, and a favorite of international investors. But even with India’s impressive recent achievements, the country continues to face considerable challenges as it seeks to sustain rapid growth and extend the benefits to all its citizens. Is India entering into a "Golden Age" or experiencing a period of rapid but ultimately unsustainable growth? The studies in this book examine in detail what lies behind India’s recent economic rise and considers the steps needed to build on this success over the medium term.




Economic Growth in India and China


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For a country s economy to grow, it must raise its productivity, ability to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), be open to trade, allocate its resources better, etc. For any country, the importance of FDI lies in developing technology abroad for dome




Causality Between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in India


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Foreign direct investment is considered to be a vital component of every nation's attempt towards economic development. It contributes directly to the growth, and facilitates transfer of managerial skills, besides improving global market access. On this background, the present paper investigates the causal nexus between foreign direct investment and economic growth in India. Also, the paper identifies and finds out an explanation for its association. Granger causality Test is employed to examine the causality between FDI and Economic growth in India, for which annual data from UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) for the year 1995 to 2013 was used. The Granger test reveals a positive relationship from GDP to FDI.




Foreign Capital and Economic Growth in India


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This book is designed to fulfill a long felt need for a wide ranging empirical research on foreign capital-growth nexus. It presents an analysis of disaggregated flows of foreign capital and their long run relationship with growth process in an emerging nation like India during the past four decades. The study detects factors like financial deepening, trade openness and market size, as potential determinants of FDI. The book investigates long run relationship between FDI and Growth, with causality running from FDI to Growth, whereby Aid-Growth long run relationship is detected with causal direction from Aid to Growth. Further, Net foreign capital-growth nexus is also established in the long run, however, with no causal direction. The book examines the relative significance of Aid and FDI in terms of their impact on growth. The results reveal that Aid appears to be more productive than FDI, but when export is included in the model FDI appears to be more productive than Aid. Empirical results have been calculated in the book, with the help of Johansen and Juselius (1990) co-integration technique, vector error correction, impulse response function and variance decomposition. The results in the book show, superiority of FDI over Aid is not established in India, hence two variables remain complementary to each other. This timely book on foreign capital-growth nexus in India is likely to attract researchers, teachers of Economics, Mathematics, Commerce, Business Economics, Management, Technology and policy-makers interested in the foreign capital-growth nexus in future.