Tag: FDI

  • Foreign Direct Investment: The Conundrum Explained

    Foreign Direct Investment: The Conundrum Explained

    By Bhumesh Verma, Managing Partner, Corp Comm Legal. Foreign Direct Investment or FDI, as it is called in common parlance, has become the fuel which is essential to sustain and develop any country’s economy. Developing countries such as India, require significant and consistent infusion of foreign investments in their economy in order to maintain a…

  • Foreign Direct Investment in Retail: II

    By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. SEGMENT 2 This write-up seeks to examine the economic progress made by the country in the field of FDI in retail. This article seeks to examine the socio-economic constraints in introducing FDI in Retail in India. Also the impact that FDI has on the Indian Sub-continent particularly its markets will be…

  • Railways and Privatisation: FDI is the Name of the Game

    By Neelanjana Paul, KLE Society’s Law College, Bangalore. Understanding Privatisation and FDI The economy of India had undergone significant policy shifts in the beginning of the 1990s. This new model of economic reforms is commonly known as the LPG or Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation model. The primary objective of this model was to make the economy of…

  • Foreign Direct Investment in India: I

    By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. SEGMENT 1 FDI in Defence- Recent Development It was December 2014 and the debate on the topic of FDI in Defence got heated up. “The biggest and the most immediate fallout from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States should be this: India allows 100 per…

  • Protectionism instead of Facilitation, Indian Stand at WTO: How far justified?

    By Sudipta Bhowmik, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. Behind the extremely technical debate within the WTO, what is at stake above all are models of agricultural development.[1] -Dr. Bruno Losch  “Trade can be a powerful force for growth and poverty reduction. Countries that have increased the share of trade in their GDP have grown faster and reduced…