Foreign direct investment- over pioneering the economy

In this 21^st century, Foreign Direct Investment may bring the employment, standard of living, good economy, global atmosphere, urbanization, liberalization, professional exchanges, interaction between the country, exchanging the culture, importing and exporting of technical knowhow, etc. All areas of foreign direct investment interaction in this partnership between the countries should be more worthy and result oriented. The data for the study was collected from published sources such as books, magazines, websites, journals, news papers, manuals, pamphlets and observations etc. In this paper, it mentioned about globalization, history of foreign investment, form of international capital flows, foreign direct investment, components of foreign direct investment, foreign direct investment as external sources of finance, foreign direct investment vs. foreign Portfolio Investment, foreign direct Investment and multinational companies, types of business objectives of foreign direct investment, types of foreign direct investment, diversified views on foreign direct investment, foreign direct investment by sovereign wealth Funds (SWFs) and Growing Concerns about sovereign wealth funds.