{"id":2437,"date":"2019-06-22T02:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2019-06-22T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:05:08","slug":"unctad-world-investment-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/unctad-world-investment-report-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"UNCTAD World Investment Report 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccording to the&nbsp;<strong>United Nations Conference on Trade and\nDevelopment&nbsp;<\/strong>(UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2019,&nbsp;<strong>India&nbsp;<\/strong>received\nforeign direct investments (FDI) worth&nbsp;<strong>USD 42 billion<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>2018<\/strong>.<br>\nIndia attracted over 77% of the total foreign\ndirect investments that came to the South Asian region.<br>\nThe global FDI slipped by&nbsp;<strong>13%<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2018, to\nUS$1.3 trillion from $1.5 trillion in 2017, the third consecutive annual\ndecline.<br>\nIndia\u2019s rank as a source country for FDI dropped\none place to the&nbsp;<strong>10th&nbsp;<\/strong>position\nas it was overtaken by Spain.<br>\nInvestment in India rose by 6% to USD 42\nbillion.<br>\nAmong others in the South Asian region, FDI\nflows to&nbsp;<strong>Bangladesh&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Sri Lanka&nbsp;<\/strong>rose to\na record level, to USD 3.6 billion and USD 1.6 billion, respectively, while\nPakistan witnessed a 27% decline in investment to USD 2.4 billion.<br><strong>About\nUNCTAD<\/strong>:<br>\nEstablished by: United Nations General Assembly\nin 1964.<br>\nHeadquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.<br>\nIt is part of the UN Secretariat.<br>\nPurpose: It supports developing countries to\naccess the benefits of a globalized economy more fairly and effectively.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the&nbsp;United Nations Conference on Trade and Development&nbsp;(UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2019,&nbsp;India&nbsp;received foreign direct investments (FDI) worth&nbsp;USD 42 billion&nbsp;in&nbsp;2018. India attracted over 77% of the total foreign direct investments that came to the South Asian region. The global FDI slipped by&nbsp;13%&nbsp;in 2018, to US$1.3 trillion from $1.5 trillion in 2017, the third consecutive annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","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\/2437","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}