* Associate Professor, Dept. of Management Studies, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Jnanasangama, Belagavi
** Lecturer, KLE's College of Business Adminstration, Lingaraj College, Belgavi. Plot No. 5/B, “Siddhi ”Subhashchandra Nagar, Tilakwadi, Belgavi
Online published on 25 May, 2016.
Foreign Direct Investment is today become an important tool for managing a country's stability in the market. Foreign Direct Investment is assumed to be a key factor for achieving economic development in a developing economy such as India. FDI has seen a tremendous growth in the last twenty to twenty-five years in the global market. India as an economy has become a major source of foreign investment in the world. We have been witnessing a lot of public and private initiatives for expansion through FDI in the country. This paper has attempted to bring forth the Indian footprint in the world for foreign direct investment. The paper has undertaken the available secondary data for an empirical research in order to emphasize the Foreign Direct Investment scenario in India. This paper tries to put forth a general analysis of the inflows and outflows of FDI in India for a time span from 2007 to 2014. This paper tries to highlight the major sectors attracting foreign direct investment and explores the top investing countries for FDI in India. The paper used charts and figures that showed the trend of FDI inflows in India and the geographical distribution of FDI Inflows. It also gives a synopsis of the top investing countries of FDI in India.
FDI, OFDI, India, trend of FDI, Economic development
