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.

Foreign direct investment is increasingly being channeled into future-shaping industries, reconfiguring trade networks.
In this <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-asia/future-of-asia-podcasts">Future of Asia Podcast </a>episode, host Debbi Cheong talks to McKinsey experts Jeongmin Seong and Tiago Devesa, two of the authors of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/the-fdi-shake-up-how-foreign-direct-investment-today-may-shape-industry-and-trade-tomorrow">The FDI shake-up: How foreign direct investment today may shape industry and trade tomorrow</a>, 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.

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