| | February 20198An alumnus of SVKM's NMIMS, Dharmesh is a senior financial services professional with over 15 years of experience in Retail banking, Private Banking, NRI Services, and many other areas.By Dharmesh Desai, Head - NRI Business, IIFL Securitiesver the last few decades, Middle East Asia has become a sought-after des-tination for Indians for its abundant professional opportunities. Millions of Indians living in the region have strong family and economic ties in India. It is there-fore important for the Non-Resident Indians to un-derstand investment opportunities available in India in the current context. Indian economy has shown signs of recovery as the impact of demonetisation and GST transition fade away. As per IMF estimates, India will become the fastest growing economy in the world outpacing China in 2019. IMF retained its India's GDP growth forecast of 6.7-7.4 percent in 2017 and 2018, respec-tively, and pegged 2019 GDP growth at 7.8 percent. India has typically recovered much faster than other prominent nations after global economic slowdown events such as dot com crash, 9/11 crash or 2008 financial crisis, thus showing signs of a maturing, OIN MY OPINIONINVESTMENT OPTIONS IN INDIA FOR MIDDLE EAST BASED NON-RESIDENT INDIANS
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