{"id":97182,"date":"2020-07-07T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=97182"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:36:09","slug":"fdi-inflow-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/fdi-inflow-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"FDI inflow to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : What is the rank of India in terms of recipient of FDI in 2019 ?<\/strong><br>(a)9th largest<br>(b) 8th largest<br>(c)7th largest<br>(d)6th largest<br><strong>Answer : (a)<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) releaseda report on 15June, 2020.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India was the 9th largest recipient of FDI in 2019, with 51 billion dollars of inflows during the year, an increase from the 42 billion dollars of FDI received in 2018, when India ranked 12 among the top 20 host economies in the world.<\/li><li>The report noted that investors concluded deals worth over $650 million in the first quarter of 2020, mostly in the digital sector in India.<\/li><li>The report said that global FDI flows are forecast to decrease by up to 40 per cent in 2020, from their 2019 value of USD 1.54 trillion.<\/li><li>This would be for the first time since 2005 that global FDI falls below the USD 1 trillion mark.<\/li><li>In the &#8220;developing Asia&#8221; region, India was among the top five host economies for FDI.<\/li><li>Foreign direct investment to developing economies in Asia, hit hard by the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, are projected to decline by up to 45 per cent in 2020.<\/li><li>In South Asia, FDI is also expected to contract sharply in 2020.<\/li><li>FDI to India, the largest South Asian recipient, increased 20 per cent to USD 51 billion, sustaining the country&#8217;s upward FDI trend, the report said.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8212; Pankaj Pandey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/news\/economy\/indicators\/india-9th-largest-recipient-of-fdi-in-2019-will-continue-to-attract-investments-un\/articleshow\/76400055.cms\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/news\/economy\/indicators\/india-9th-largest-recipient-of-fdi-in-2019-will-continue-to-attract-investments-un\/articleshow\/76400055.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : What is the rank of India in terms of recipient of FDI in 2019 ?(a)9th largest(b) 8th largest(c)7th largest(d)6th largestAnswer : (a)Related facts Context The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) releaseda report on 15June, 2020. Highlights India was the 9th largest recipient of FDI in 2019, with 51 billion dollars of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":97183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-97182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182","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=97182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182\/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\/97183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97182"}],"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=97182"},{"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=97182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}