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India bucks global decline in FDI; grows 13% against world's 42% fall in 2020 The fall in FDI flows across developing regions was uneven, with (-)37 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean, (-)18 per cent in Africa and (-)4 per cent in developing countries in Asia Joe C Mathew | January 25, 2021 | Updated 00:33 IST India bucked the global foreign direct investment (FDI) flow trend by growing 13 per cent as global FDI collapsed in 2020, falling by 42 per cent to an estimated $859 billion from $1.5 trillion in 2019, the 38th Global Investment Trends Monitor released by United Nations Confe...

DNA Special: What are the biggest lessons of the year 2020? It is said that time teaches us a lot and we too can learn a lot from the bad time that prevailed in 2020 across the world due to the pandemic. Share Updated: Dec 31, 2020, 11:33 AM IST There is no teacher more significant than time. In our society, time is weighed on the scales of good and bad. When a person achieves success, we say that he is going through a good time. If something ill happens to someone, it is said that their time is not good. You must have also heard people saying that their time will come. That is to say, that t...

A migrant worker in Ahmedabad on May 19. | Amit Dave/Reuters In 1998, APJ Abdul Kalam, a scientist and administrator associated with India’s missile programme as well as the Pokhran-II nuclear tests, co-authored a book titled India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium. It had a simple message: India would be a superpower within the next two decades. As predictions go, this was extremely bold. In 1998, India was a poor country, unable to reach even average global standards of human development. How would it suddenly leapfrog to superpower status? However, instead of bein...