The Legal Framework of Foreign Investment & Protection In India
Keywords:
Cross Border Investment, Investor Protection, Foreign Direct Investment, Most Favoured NationAbstract
“Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!”
- Quoted by John Bogle when he came up with the idea of an Index Fund
The act of Investment refers to action of investing money (alternatively referred to as capital) in order to obtain in return a profit from the act of such investment. Such profit can be in the form of interest, income, appreciation in value of an asset invested in, etc., depending upon the investor. The current paper explores the concept of foreign investment that has emerged due to the merging of global economies brought about by the age of globalization. The authors have also analysed the topic of Investor Protection in relation to the current topic, which has aways played an integral role in ensuring that foreign investments flow freely into a market. Different concepts established in the development of cross border investment have also been discussed in the course of the current paper.
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