India’s inward investment regime went through a series of changes since economic reforms were ushered in two decades back. The expectation of the policy makers was that an “investor friendly” regime will help India establish itself as a preferred destination of foreign investors. These...

Multibrand retail was opened to foreign participation in September 2012, it even earlier some Indian and foreign companies had used a maze of relationships between themselves and their subsidiaries to bypass the restrictions. An analysis of the Bharti-Walmart venture

The ISID Policy Brief No. 2, “The Tenuous Relationship between Make in India and FDI Inflows”, analyses the empirical issues in measuring the FDI inflows and highlights the problems in attributing FDI inflows to some specific policy measure. It finds that the surge in FDI inflows in recent...

An important backdrop of this study is the Discussion Paper released by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in August 2017. This paper expressed the need to review India's FDI policy which, being largely aimed at attracting investment, has failed to retain investments and harness...