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2008–2011: COMPETING THROUGH CRISIS

The growth of the early 2000s hid a lot of risk. Too much of it relied on debt, property and financial risk-taking. By 2009, that had caught up with the global economy. Businesses cut investment. Consumer spending fell. Trade saw its largest drop of the century and global FDI inflows…

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Remembering the 2025 Tariff Wars: What Capital did next

Early investment data suggest trade uncertainty is changing the scale and character of investment into the US, even as project numbers remain broadly stable. Early 2025 already feels like a…

Transforming your EDO

EDO Transformation: rethink the purpose, not just the process

Transforming your EDO The design of the earliest motor cars departed as little as possible from those of horse-drawn carts. It was decades before innovators realised that a ‘horseless carriages’…

Why investment promotion is becoming an inside job

UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2026 confirms that global FDI is recovering. But the recovery is becoming more concentrated, with investment flowing into fewer locations and a smaller number of strategic…

2001–2007: THE RISE OF INTELLIGENCE-LED FDI

The early 2000s started with a wobble. The world avoided the millennium bug, but the dot.com bust still left damage behind, mainly across tech stocks and venture capital. The recovery…

What Jiaxing tells us about investment in the Yangtze River Delta

The Yangtze River Delta remains one of China’s most important regions for foreign investment. For multinationals, the question is not whether the region matters. It is where to locate within…

Northern Ireland in a flow state: the post-Brexit economy is being reshaped by movement

Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, Northern Ireland’s economic story is still too often told in extremes. Depending on who you spoke to at the time, Brexit was either…

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