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...

After a long and winding process, India opened the retail trade to foreign direct investment (RFDI) albeit with some caveats. The process, however, suggests that the case of RFDI provides a classic example of large global corporations succeeding in influencing public policy of developing...

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

The main objective of corporates in listing their shares on the stock exchanges is to mobilise resources for investment directly from the investors. And for investors the liquidity provided by the stock market and the monitoring and disciplining mechanism that goes with listing are the main...

While there has been extensive research to identify the factors which influence FDI's choice of host countries to invest in, considerable interest is also being attached to location of FDI establishments within specific countries. In India too, a few studies focused on the distribution of FDI in...