How foreign direct investment is shaping future business

How foreign direct investment is shaping future business

March 20, 2026 · 28 min · Season 1 · Episode 75

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The episode discusses how foreign direct investment is influencing future industries and trade configurations, particularly in Asia.

Foreign direct investment is increasingly being channeled into future-shaping industries, reconfiguring trade networks. In this Future of Asia Podcast episode, host Debbi Cheong talks to McKinsey experts Jeongmin Seong and Tiago Devesa, two of the authors of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, The FDI shake-up: How foreign direct investment today may shape industry and trade tomorrow , about the impact of new FDI announcements globally. They focus on Asia, which accounts for about 50 percent of global trade flows, and its central role in the new configurations of trade. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information

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