India becomes 9th largest recipient of FDI in 2019: UN

16 Jun 2020 Evaluate

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its latest ‘The World Investment Report 2020’ has said that India was the 9th largest recipient of foreign direct investments (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.

The report also underlined that a lower but positive economic growth in India in the post-COVID19 pandemic period and India's large market will continue to attract market-seeking investments to the country. According to the report, India was among the top five host economies for FDI in the ‘developing Asia’ region.

The UNCTAD also forecasted that global FDI flows to decrease by up to 40 percent in 2020, from their 2019 value of $1.54 trillion. This would be for the first time since 2005 that global FDI falls below the $1 trillion marks. It further said that 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 percent in 2020.

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