{"id":1675,"date":"2019-06-18T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2019-06-18T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:21:09","slug":"indias-fdi-equity-inflows-declined-for-the-first-time-in-6-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indias-fdi-equity-inflows-declined-for-the-first-time-in-6-years\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s FDI equity inflows declined for the first time in 6 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)&nbsp;<\/strong>equity inflows declined for the first time in six years\nin&nbsp;<strong>2018-19.<\/strong>&nbsp;Data released by the&nbsp;<strong>Department of Industrial Policy and\nPromotion<\/strong>&nbsp;and internal trade\nshowed FDI equity inflows into India<strong>declined 1% to $44.4 billion<\/strong>&nbsp;in the year to 31 March. The decline signals a squeeze\nin<strong>&nbsp;long-term foreign\ninvestment<\/strong>&nbsp;into the country.<br>\nThe two sectors where FDI inflows dropped the\nmost are telecommunications (fell 57% to $2.7 billion) and pharmaceuticals\n(dropped 74% to $266 million). Singapore dislodged Mauritius as a top source of\nFDI, accounting for $16.22 billion inflows.<br>\n<br>\n<strong>What is Foreign Direct\nInvestment (FDI)?<\/strong><br>\nForeign direct investment (FDI) is an investment\nmade by a<strong>&nbsp;firm or individual in one country<\/strong>&nbsp;into business interests located in another country.\nGenerally, FDI takes&nbsp;place&nbsp;when an investor establishes foreign\nbusiness operations or acquires foreign business assets, including\nestablishing&nbsp;ownership or controlling interest in a foreign company.\nForeign direct&nbsp;investments&nbsp;are distinguished from portfolio\ninvestments in which an investor merely purchases<strong>&nbsp;equities&nbsp;of foreign-based\ncompanies.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s&nbsp;Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)&nbsp;equity inflows declined for the first time in six years in&nbsp;2018-19.&nbsp;Data released by the&nbsp;Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion&nbsp;and internal trade showed FDI equity inflows into Indiadeclined 1% to $44.4 billion&nbsp;in the year to 31 March. The decline signals a squeeze in&nbsp;long-term foreign investment&nbsp;into the country. The two sectors where FDI inflows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}