While India has generally been following an open door FDI policy, a few areas are still subject to caps on FDI and or specific government approval. One of the justifications for the same is the need to retain a degree of control over the operations of the investee companies in Indian hands....

The issue of differentiating between FDI and FPI is related to the functional aspects of the investments. The internationally adopted definition which relies on a numerical benchmark of 10% is thus of limited practical utility for policy makers. However, because of its widespread adoption and...

This paper aims to estimate the quantum of inflow of FDI in R&D in India, identify the sectors which receive FDI in R&D, identify the nature and characteristics of investors and investee firms and examine the innovation performance of investee firms in terms of R&D expenditure, patents and...

This paper highlights some of the provisions in India's Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements that have enabled foreign investors to win cases before international arbitration tribunals. Warning that these disputes with foreign investors signal the emerging struggle between...

An important backdrop of this study is the Discussion Paper released by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in August 2017. This paper expressed the need to review India's FDI policy which, being largely aimed at attracting investment, has failed to retain investments and harness...

The ISID Policy Brief No. 2, “The Tenuous Relationship between Make in India and FDI Inflows”, analyses the empirical issues in measuring the FDI inflows and highlights the problems in attributing FDI inflows to some specific policy measure. It finds that the surge in FDI inflows in recent...

India’s inward investment regime went through a series of changes since economic reforms were ushered in two decades back. The expectation of the policy makers was that an “investor friendly” regime will help India establish itself as a preferred destination of foreign investors. These...

Multibrand retail was opened to foreign participation in September 2012, it even earlier some Indian and foreign companies had used a maze of relationships between themselves and their subsidiaries to bypass the restrictions. An analysis of the Bharti-Walmart venture