Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities

FIGURE 3.8 Outward Investors from Various Sectors (Based on International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities)

Textiles 7.52

Apparel 4.26

Other manufacturing 6.27 Manufacturing of food products 5.51 Retail trade, except for motor vehicles 12.28

Chemicals 3.26 Metals and minerals 3.26 Travel 3.26 Whole trade, except for motor vehicles 3.26 Warehousing 6.52

Motor vehicles 1.25 Water 2.01 Postal 1.25

Telecommunications 2.01

Information 1.25 Building 2.51

Specialized 2.26

Crop and animal production 3.51

Pharmaceuticals 4.26 Machinery motors 2.76 Leather 1.75 Education and health 3.01 Sports 0.5 Finance services 4.26

Accommodations 1.25

Accommodation and food service Financial and insurance Mining Wholesale and retail Agriculture, forestry, and fishing Information and communication Other services

Source: World Bank data. Note: Blank boxes represent investments with negligible shares. Construction Manufacturing Transportation and storage

manufacturers of tea and spices (other food products), carpets, construction, retail pharmaceuticals, and growers of beverage crops (for example, tea plantations).

Investment Destinations, Both within and outside the Region In the sample of 399 investor firms, 167 firms (42 percent) invest in South Asia only, 105 firms (26 percent) invest only outside South Asia, and 127 firms (32 percent) invest both regionally and extraregionally. A more detailed description of the investor origin and destination is presented in table A.4 in appendix A.

Given the high logistical barriers that separate NER from the rest of India and that NER shares borders (in South Asia) with Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal, NER was given special consideration as a separate destination in the data (see figure 1A.1, in annex 1A to chapter 1). A brief profile of the constituent states of the region and a figure to capture the state boundaries with its neighbors are presented in table A.3 and figure A.4 in appendix A. NER accounts for 8 percent of India’s land area (and is about 1.75 times the