Regardless of decline in global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, 'Global Investment Trade Monitor' report released by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) showed that India’s FDI increased by 26% in 2014 to an estimated $35 billion. Notably, the figure is one of the highest in recent years, though in 2008 FDI peaked in India with $47 billion investment followed by $35.6 billion in 2009.
Meanwhile, the top five countries in FDI list in 2014 were China ($128 billion), followed by Hong Kong ($111 billion), the US ($86 billion), Singapore ($81 billion) and Brazil ($62 billion). Further, the report pointed that maximum growth in services sector especially in electricity, gas, water, waste management and information and communication, led to sharp surge of FDI in the country.
According to UNCTAD, India still remains the brightest spot for FDI despite a global decline and FDI is at a significant historical high, if not at the highest level of investment. However, China piped US to top the FDI recipient list and emerged as world's largest recipient of FDI. The world’s largest economy, United States (US) has been holding the position of world’s largest recipient of FDI, since 1980’s despite a modest rise of 3%. However, the drop in FDI in the US has been primarily due to a fall in cross-border M&A sales, particularly due to the Verizon-Vodafone deal and stood at $10 billion in 2014 from $60 billion in 2013. It had exceeded $222 billion in 2008. Lastly, the report underscored that while the overall FDI flows to developed countries dropped by 14%, FDI in developing economies reached to new high with global share of 56%.
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