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...That trend will be examined in a FT series of articles on FDI in the coming days....
...Some types of foreign investment, such as M&A and other forms of equity investment, are not tracked by fDi Markets....
...Commerce ministry data released last week showed FDI in China fell 26 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2024 to Rmb302bn ($42bn)....
...India is touted as an alternative to China, but its inward FDI falls short of Modi’s aim to “Make in India” and transform the country into a premier manufacturing nation....
...“The problem, however, is that FDI alone cannot make up for the lack of cohesive US trade and economic policies for the region,” he said....
...To pre-empt that, von der Leyen has been courting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy (FdI) party is expected to secure about 30 seats....
...Economists warn that high inflation, low economic growth, policy U-turns and political turmoil over the past two years have also had a negative effect on the UK’s appeal to foreign investors....
...German companies announced a record $15.7bn in capital commitments to US projects last year, up sharply from $8.2bn a year earlier, dwarfing any other foreign destination, according to data from fDi Markets...
...FDI in the wider Bay Area fell sharply in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, plunging from 98 deals in 2019 to around 47 in 2021, according to fDi Markets....
...Local governments, under pressure from a property crisis and the legacy of shouldering the costs of zero-Covid policies, have courted foreign executives as they return to China for the first time in years...
...Matt Griffith, director of policy at Business West, welcomed Harrington’s vision but warned that delivering the plan would still require overcoming a chronic lack of investment-ready sites....
...Shifting demand to the domestic economy is in general the right policy for China, but not through fuelling a property boom....
...Like last year, we considered a city’s taxes, incentives, rent, and utility costs, as well as how supportive local policies were towards FDI objectives through a survey with the State International Development...
...The UK has FDI stocks of about $3.1tn. That is well ahead of EU rivals, according to the OECD. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers....
...But let’s assume the returns on German FDI in China will indeed keep growing and remain lucrative for the long term. Even so, this has some profound implications at home....
...But last year Brazil performed far more strongly, attracting 41 per cent of all FDI into Latin America and the Caribbean against Mexico’s 17 per cent....
...investment in the mining and base metals industries hit $16bn in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available, much of it from Chinese companies that dominate Indonesia’s nickel industry, while total FDI...
...About a third of FDI, predominantly from China, went into the metals and mining industries....
...The US is the largest source of foreign direct investment in Northern Ireland and the region landed 33 new FDI projects in 2022-23, creating 1,416 new jobs....
...“We are worried that Chinese industrial support policies and macro policies that are more focused on supply rather than thinking about where the demand will come from are both careening towards a situation...
...“If you look at FDI [from China], in 2015 it was practically non-existent. Now there’s €9bn of investment creating 5,000 jobs,” said Martin Murray, executive director of Irish think-tank Asia Matters....
...The FDI data underlined foreign companies’ nervousness in putting money into China amid slowing growth and higher interest rates on offer in other countries....
...Nevertheless, the UK should not have fallen quite so far behind, according to the Harrington Review of FDI, which the Chancellor will publish next week....
...has been “offset by recent policy instability, regulatory and policy uncertainty and market access challenges”....
...“Beyond the flows to extractive industries . . . it’s very clear that the most successful countries in attracting more technologically sophisticated FDI have a combination of conditions including rule of...
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