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Attracting and

Managing International

Investment:

The Indian Approach

T he global investment climate is no stability, and a widening set of investible

opportunities across sectors -
longer a simple contest of growth
rates. It is a contest of credibility -
earned over time, tested through cycles, manufacturing, infrastructure, and
technology-enabled services. The next
and sustained by institutions. Capital leap in India’s positioning as a preferred
remains abundant, but conviction is investment destination will come from a
harder to earn. Geopolitical shift in how India thinks about foreign
fragmentation, supply-chain capital - from managing volume to
realignments, and episodic risk-off cycles managing quality.
mean that the largest movers of global
capital - sovereign funds, pensions,
N. Venkatram As India enters its next phase
insurers, and strategic multinationals - of economic expansion, the
Part-time member, SEBI and are increasingly selective about where strategy for attracting foreign
Country Chair, CDPQ India, they place long-duration bets.
CDPQ Global investment must increasingly
India enters this evolving investment focus on the quality,
climate with meaningful advantages: a durability, and developmental
large domestic market, improving macro impact of global capital

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