Trends and patterns of FDI in India

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as an important agent in the process of accelerated economic growth in the developing countries. The rapid expansion in FDI by multinational enterprises since the mid-eighties may be attributed to significant changes in technologies, greater liberalisation of trade and investment regimes, and deregulation and privatisation of markets in many countries including developing countries like India. This study is an attempt to study the concept, flow and trends of FDI. The another objective is to study the country-wise, sector-wise, geographically wise and financial year wise FDI inflows in India from 1991 onwards. Statistical methods like tabulations, percentages, graphical presentations, trend analysis etc have been applied to evaluate the data and to turn up the noteworthy inferences.