India’s outward foreign direct investment: emerging trends and issues

FDI in India and Pakistan: Potential Sectors for Bilateral Investment

“…Keeping this in mind, the current study makes an attempt to identify the potential sectors for investment for Indian investors in Pakistan while applying a different methodology than the existing ones. FDI is a natural extension of the globalisation process that often begins with exports (Iqbal et al, 2018). It is a well-established fact that whoever has made an investment in a foreign market has catered that market initially through export (Johanson & Vahlne, 1977;Kaushal, 2018).…”

“…Predictably, the nature of economic relation between India and other countries has evolved over the last decade or so, giving way for a greater cooperation in trade and investments 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2006-2017 (EXIM Bank, 2014). Indian firms have invested across a wide variety of sectors and countries, departing from trading and textiles in developing countries, which has been their major investment focus (Iqbal et al, 2018). These investments have gone mainly to developed countries such as the UK, Singapore, Australia and UAE.…”

“…The increasing engagement of the Indian corporations in the world markets is an indication of the maturity reached by Indian industries as well as the extent of their participation in an overall globalisation process (Iqbal et al, 2018). Indian companies are also credited for making some of the biggest acquisitions in the world.…”

“…Indian companies have also generously invested abroad. Overseas investment by Indian firms has occupied the headlines and attracted policymakers across the world symbolising the increasing global economic integration of the Indian economy (Iqbal, Turay, Hasan, & Yusuf, 2018). The data released by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reveal that Indian companies have invested to the tune of US$25.5 billion during 2016 outside India.…”

India’s Protectionism in Its Services Exports—Evidence from the Changing Services Export Promotion Indicator During 1980–2018

“…The 1997-1998 East Asian financial crisis [23] exerted contrariwise and improving influences on India's comparative advantage in services exports; and the balance of payments crisis in 2013 had very little or no impact on India's comparative advantage in services exports, and the 2008 subordinate crisis and the following financial crisis [24] seemed to obstruct the further improvement.…”