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India woos foreign money as rupee drifts downward

Government clears 25 FDI proposals, offers $1 bn in corporate debt
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An employee counts Indian rupee notes at a bank in Mumbai on May 16, 2012. (AFP/Getty Images)

Maybe the Indian government is really listening.

As economists call for more moves to woo foreign investment -- including the elimination of bureaucratic bottlenecks -- India announced a couple measures to show that they're trying.

Of course, the rupee also continued to drift downward, bumping along near record lows despite the prime minister's move to hike petrol prices last week.

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