Talk:Foreign direct investment

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Is there any list of countries for amount of foreign direct investment on Wikipedia? — Instantnood 14:16, 18 November 2005 (UTC) Italic textrole of fdi in india and when it has come first time in india????????????

If someone wants to check the UNDP (United Nations Development Program), they may have something.

There's good OECD FDI info here, under "FDI" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.121.188 (talk) 13:49, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Link to anti-globalization for crittiques

It might be useful to have a criticism section that links to the anti-globalization page. Just a thought. P.S. I'm sure as hell am not a socialist and I'm for foreign investments prudently regulated. Responsiblebum 15:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I think before we do that we need to expand this article further- right now it's pretty bare given the huge amount of info about it out there! I have some free time coming up and will be working on it- if you'd like to help out with a criticism section that'd be cool!  :-) --khello 17:31, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Working on this article

I've started adding some more information to this page, since I think it's pretty bare for such an important topic. Please feel free to criticize and improve any additions. I would appreciate any comments on structure and what else needs to be included. Hopefully we can get this to become a Featured Article! --khello 00:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Link to FDI.net

I think that link to the FDI.net, added by the user IP address 138.220.116.72, is quite relevant because this page is created by the World Bank Group to provide every kind information related to the FDI. Beagel 18:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Link to www.investmentmap.org

I think link to the Investment Map is very relevent too. As Investment Map is produced by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in partnership with: the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA); and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank Group.

Investment Map aims to assist investment promotion agencies (IPAs) in defining priority sectors for investment promotion, identifying potential investors in a given sector, identifying competitor countries for inward investment, and defining opportunities for bilateral investment.

Investment Map combines statistics on foreign direct investment and international trade, tariff data and activities of multinational firms. The tariff data includes MFN tariffs as well as multilateral, regional and bilateral preferences and covers ad valorem equivalents of specific tariffs, tariff quotas and anti-dumping duties. Tariff and trade data are available for merchandise goods (not services) at the 6-digit level of the Harmonised System for about 5,000 product items. Information on foreign direct investment (FDI) is available on goods and services for up to 150 sectors. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.239.220.249 (talk) 10:42, 7 March 2007 (UTC).

Recent deletion of substantial content

I have just restored substantial deleted content from April 29th (deleted here). In doing so I have lost some of the additions which have been made of the past month. I am unsure about how to incorporate them, but believe the content lost is less substantial than the content I restored. I apologize to anyone who has had their hard work undone by this. If someone can see a better way to restore the lost text, please be bold. -- Siobhan Hansa 17:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Hard to understand

What does this mean?

Inward FDI is encouraged by:

o Tax breaks, subsidies, low interest loans, grants, lifting of certain restrictions

o The thought is that the long term gain is worth more than the short term loss of income

The reason I ask is that I see nothing here about the reasons why companies invest abroad (market access, cost reduction), nor anything about who is doing the "encouraging". DOR (HK) (talk) 04:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

exchange cover

a subject closely related to FDI is exchange cover. Where can i find something about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.220.180.66 (talk) 23:29, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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Former section "Foreign Direct Investment: A Critical Appraisal"

I have integrated this former section into the section Foreign direct investment in India since that is what it appeared to refer to, but does not make clear at all. It's always a good idea to read an article through carefully to see where your new addition can best be integrated rather than tacking on a separate section at the end which may be very confusing to the reader. Also, Wikipedia does not do "Critical Apparaisals" or reach "Conclusions". That is appropriate for a student essay but not an encyclopedia article. An article should only relate facts with references to reliable sources. I have also tagged the section for copy-editing and referencing. Each of the assertions there needs a citation to a reliable source and especially the direct quote. Voceditenore (talk) 08:13, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Material moved here from article per IEP cleanup

I have moved the following material here from the article per the WP:IEP cleanup. The text seems likely to be based on Economic Developments in India : Monthly Update, Volume 66 by Raj Kapila & Uma Kapila, based on a Google search, some at least appears to be paraphrased but at least one sentence is almost unchanged. It can be returned to the article if appropriately sourced and paraphrased.

1)While the FDI approvals reveal quantum jump since the liberalisation of policy in 1991, the actual inflow have been much less. Thus the foreign investors have not matched their intent with performance. In fact, actual inflows have been less than half of the approvals. 2)According to Nagesh Kumar, "the expansion in the magnitude of FDI inflows during 1990s is not due to reform alone. It reflect, in part, the dramatic expansion in the global FDI flows to developing countries (from about $35 billion per year on average during 1987-92 to $166 billion in 1998 and $648 billion in 2004)." 3)The major issues is that a substantial part of these resources are going into mergers and acquisitions and not in the formation of fresh capital.^{[citation needed]} 4) There is regional disparity in the country. There is a large inflow of FDIs in certain parts of india mainly delhi, Maharashtra, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, haryana and selected parts of U.P.^{[citation needed]} 5)In comparision with China the FDI inflow pre 1991 period was insignificant. There was a much larger inflow of FDIs in the 1990s.^{[citation needed]} 6)The smaller project receive a very small proportions of FDI approvals, over two-third of the total value of FDI approvals goes to projects of size greater than Rs100 crore. Therefore very little of the FDI has gone to augment exports that are mostly from labour-intensive unregistered manufacturing.^{[citation needed]} 7)There is also a question that whether investment in FDI necessarily lead to a higher growth rate. The biggest risk faced is that given the massive inflow of FDIs in the country in recent times might raise concern with their macroeconomic implications and the danger of an equally sudden reversal.^{[citation needed]} Therefore, these flows tend to make financial markets vulnerable and may end up landing the country in a currency/payment crisis.

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:21, 12 November 2011 (UTC)