{"id":27142,"date":"2017-06-15T11:56:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=27142"},"modified":"2017-06-15T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:56:21","slug":"world-investment-report-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-investment-report-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"World Investment Report-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: According to the &#8216;World Investment Report-2017&#8217; issued by UNCTAD on June 7, 2017, India, with $ 44 billion of foreign direct investment inflows, is at which place in the list of the largest investment recipient countries?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 9th<br \/>\n(b) 12th<br \/>\n(c) 10th<br \/>\n(d) 8th<br \/>\n<strong>Ans :(c)<br \/>\nRelated facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On June 7, 2017, the World Investment Report (WIR) 2017 was released by UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development).<\/li>\n<li>World Investment Report is being published annually by UNCTAD since year 1991.<\/li>\n<li>This is the 27th edition of World Investment Report.<\/li>\n<li>The central theme of the 27th edition of the World Investment Report is &#8220;Investment and the Digital Economy&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The following issues are included in each version of the World Investment Report \u2013<\/strong><br \/>\n1. An analysis of trends in FDI during the previous year, with special emphasis on development implications.<br \/>\n2. Ranking of the largest multinational corporations in the world<br \/>\n3. In-depth analysis of a selected topic related to FDI.<br \/>\n4. Policy analysis and recommendations.<\/li>\n<li>In 2016, global flows of foreign direct investment fell by about 2 per cent, to $1.75 trillion.<\/li>\n<li>In the year 2016, FDI inflows in developing countries declined 14 percent to $ 646 billion.<\/li>\n<li>In the year 2016, the global FDI inflow of developing Asia declined 15 percent to $ 443 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Global FDI inflows grew 5 percent to $ 1 trillion in developed countries in the year 2016.<\/li>\n<li>According to this report, in the year 2016, the United States, China and India were the preferred destinations for foreign direct investment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>According to the World Investment Report-2017, the 5 largest economies with direct foreign investment inflow are:<\/strong><br \/>\nI. United States ($ 391 billion)<br \/>\nII. United Kingdom ($ 254 billion)<br \/>\nIII. China ($ 134 billion)<br \/>\nIV. Hong Kong China ($ 108 billion)<br \/>\nV. The Netherlands ($ 92 billion)<\/li>\n<li>According to the report, India is the 10th highest recipient of FDI in the world with FDI inflows of $ 44 billion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>According to the World Investment Report, the 5 largest economies with foreign direct investment outflow are:<\/strong><br \/>\ni. United States ($ 299 billion)<br \/>\nii. China ($ 183 billion)<br \/>\niii. Netherlands ($ 174 billion)<br \/>\niv. Japan (145 billion dollars)<br \/>\nv. Canada (66 billion dollars)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related Links:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/unctad.org\/en\/Pages\/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=1413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/unctad.org\/en\/Pages\/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=1413<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/unctad.org\/en\/pages\/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/unctad.org\/en\/pages\/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1497<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/unctad.org\/en\/PublicationsLibrary\/wir2017_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/unctad.org\/en\/PublicationsLibrary\/wir2017_en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: According to the &#8216;World Investment Report-2017&#8217; issued by UNCTAD on June 7, 2017, India, with $ 44 billion of foreign direct investment inflows, is at which place in the list of the largest investment recipient countries? (a) 9th (b) 12th (c) 10th (d) 8th Ans :(c) Related facts On June 7, 2017, the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-27142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}