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Post liberlisation regime of 1991, India became has become a lucrative investment avenue for overseas investors. At the same time, over the past decade or so, Indian companies have become competitive at the international level and have engaged in overseas investments and mergers and acquisitions abroad. The paper, in this perspective, attempts to highlight this emerging trends and patterns of India as an overseas investor. It presents the emerging trends and patterns of Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) during the post liberlisation regime, and showcases the growing significance of India as an overseas investor in the South East Asian region. The paper demonstrates an analytical overview of the evolving Outward FDI from India in terms of sectoral as well as geographical composition.

Keywords

Outward Foreign Direct Investment, India, Multinational Corporations

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