kartik Kartik Raichura Staff member Feb 15, 2007 #2 Foreign direct investment would mean long term investments by a foreign company. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment To explain outsourcing. Say Nokia is best for manufacturing cell phones, but they are not good at manufacturing batteries. So that they do, they outsource the batteries from the best producer at a cost efficient pricing. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing .
Foreign direct investment would mean long term investments by a foreign company. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment To explain outsourcing. Say Nokia is best for manufacturing cell phones, but they are not good at manufacturing batteries. So that they do, they outsource the batteries from the best producer at a cost efficient pricing. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing .