Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows are driven by both home country and host country conditions. It is for the host country to provide a conducive environment to FDI. Many developing Asian economies, including India, have redesigned their tax systems to make them internationally competitive....

Since the early 1990s, developing countries have seen a rapid growth in their outward investments. The share of South, East and South-East Asia in global outward FDI has substantially increased in the last two decades. Due to the increasing importance of this region in global outward FDI, this...

Foreign institutional investment (FII) is believed to affect real economy of a country through its impact on factors such as exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves. Similarly, exchange rate movements are also believed to affect the FII coming to the country and foreign exchange reserves of...

While the role of taxation in influencing FDI has received considerable attention in literature, there has been very less work on examining the role of fiscal policy as a whole on FDI inflows. The dimension of fiscal policy that relates to the expenditure of the government has not received much...

This paper identifies the determinants of FII inflows to India by taking various ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors as well as two dummy variables to account for the financial crisis of 1997 and 2008. Starting with a multiple regression framework, we then employ the principal component analysis...

Underlining the critical role played by the MGNREGA, this paper exemplifies the issues, challenges and significance of MGNREGA particularly in the context of rural India. Primary Data was collected using structured questionnaire from 153 respondents and Secondary Data has been used mainly from...