Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from India

Foreign direct investment in India has played a significant role in the development of the Indian economy. FDI in India has in a lot of ways enabled India to achieve a certain degree of financial stability, growth and development. As a developmental tool, it plays an important role in the long-term development of a country not only as a source of capital but also for enhancing competitiveness of the domestic economy through transfer of technology, strengthening infrastructure, raising productivity and generating new employment opportunities. India after liberalizing and globalizing the economy to the outside world in 1991, there was a massive increase in the flow of foreign direct investment due to economic stability of the country. So, this paper have made an attempt to probe bidirectional relationship empirically between the foreign direct investment and economic growth in context of India and it is found that Gross Domestic Product causes Foreign Direct Investment which reveals that there is unidirectional relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Gross Domestic Product. For FDI to be a noteworthy provider to economic growth, India would do better by focusing on improving infrastructure, human resources, developing local entrepreneurship, creating a stable macroeconomic framework and conditions favourable for productive investments to augment the process of development.