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FDI IN RETAIL - A WELCOME MOVE

FDI IN RETAIL – A WELCOME MOVE FDI can be defined as a cross border investment, where foreign assets are invested into the organizations of the domestic market excluding the investment in stock. It brings private funds from overseas into products or services. The domestic company in which foreign currency is invested is usually being controlled by the investing foreign company, eg. an American company taking major stake in a company in India. Their ROI is based on the performance of the project. In the past decades, FDI was concerned only with highly industrialized countries. US were the world’s largest recipient of FDI during 2006 with an investment of 184 million from OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. France, Greece, Iceland, Poland, Slovak Republic, Switzerland and Turkey also have a positive record in FDI investments. Now, during the course of time, FDI has become a vital part in every country more particularly with the developing coun