{"id":251131,"date":"2023-07-07T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=251131"},"modified":"2023-07-07T19:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:14:05","slug":"india-and-asean-top-recipients-of-fdi-says-unctad-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-asean-top-recipients-of-fdi-says-unctad-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Asean top recipients of FDI, says UNCTAD report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cIndia and Asean top recipients of FDI, says UNCTAD report\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Economic Times <\/b>on<b> 6th July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has published its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-investment-report\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Investment Report 2023.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key findings of the World Investment Report 2023?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Globally:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The global FDI fell by 12% in 2022 to $1.3 trillion mainly due to overlapping global crises: the war in Ukraine, high food and energy prices, and soaring public debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The decline was felt mostly in developed economies where FDI fell by 37% to $378 billion.But flows to developing countries grew by 4% with a few large emerging countries attracting most of the investment while flows to the least developed countries declined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nvestments in renewables have nearly tripled since 2015.But most of the money has gone to developed countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about $1.7 trillion each year but attracted only $544 billion in clean energy FDI in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>India:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India was the third largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in greenfield projects in the world in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The FDI flows into India rose 10 percent from $44.7 billion in 2021 to $49.3 billion in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 However, the total FDI inflows to India in 2022 was still lower than what was recorded in 2020, when India received $64 billion of foreign investments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 India was also the second-largest recipient of international project finance in the world in 2022. International project finance is when international lenders provide debt or equity to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">infrastructure projects in various countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Moreover, Indian multinational companies substantially increased their overseas investments in 2022.Indian companies&#8217; invested about $42 billion overseas, a three-fold increase in total investments.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia and Asean top recipients of FDI, says UNCTAD report\u201d published in Economic Times on 6th July 2023 What is the News? The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has published its World Investment Report 2023. What are the key findings of the World Investment&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-asean-top-recipients-of-fdi-says-unctad-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India and Asean top recipients of FDI, says UNCTAD report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}