FDIレポート編集長
Michael Vance analyzes global foreign direct investment trends and macroeconomic shifts. His reporting provides insights into the evolving landscape of international capital allocation.
michael.vance@globalfdiinsights.comOver 2,000 industrial clusters in China are undergoing spatial restructuring: strengthening supply chains along the coast and expanding new poles inland. Starting from key industries such as electronics, semiconductors, biomedicine, and new energy, this article analyzes the capital logic behind regional shifts and their implications for long-term investment.
Despite the global decline in FDI, Europe will still attract over 5,000 projects in 2025, with AI, defense, and low-carbon energy becoming new investment engines, and regional growth momentum shifting toward Central and Southern Europe. Based on the EY European Attractiveness Survey, this article analyzes changes in capital flows and long-term competitiveness.
From the perspective of global capital flows and supply chain restructuring, this article analyzes the changing trends in the global economic landscape in 2026, focuses on Puerto Rico's strategic position and inherent constraints in this round of industrial migration, and explores how it can find new growth paths in the global investment landscape.
The 2025 assessment results of the Ministry of Commerce show that national-level economic development zones contributed nearly a quarter of the country's foreign investment and foreign trade. This article analyzes, from the perspectives of global capital flows, industrial upgrading, and institutional innovation, how this open platform has become a key node for multinational enterprises to position themselves in China.
In 2025, US trade and investment policy underwent a structural transformation: the instrumentalization of tariffs, the expansion of export controls, and the tightening of outbound investment restrictions are reshaping global capital flows and supply chain configurations. This article analyzes the logic behind these policies from a global investment perspective and assesses the responses of multinational enterprises and long-term trends.
From the perspective of global capital flows and regional industrial upgrading, this paper analyzes how the "new quality productive forces" policy drives China's ethnic regions to shift from resource dependence to a digital, green, and innovation-driven economy, revealing new opportunities and challenges in investment location.
From the coffee industry chain in Saudi Arabia's Jazan region to green hydrogen in NEOM, development finance is becoming a key tool for reshaping regional competitiveness. Based on an analysis by the World Economic Forum, this article explores how government development banks coordinate capital, cluster industries, and leverage private investment, offering replicable regional development pathways for emerging markets worldwide.
Based on Morgan Lewis’s latest analysis, this article re-deconstructs the paradigm shift in U.S. international trade and investment policy in 2025—from executive-order-driven economic nationalism to the compounding effects of tariffs, export controls, and outbound investment restrictions—providing a research framework for global capital allocation in 2026.
Based on the latest Pulse report from Washington Brown and Hotspotting, analyze how 25 Australian property investment hotspots map the structural shift of capital from metropolitan areas to regional centers, and how infrastructure, tax levers, and market resilience collectively shape the new investment map.
From a global investment perspective, analyze how development financial institutions catalyze the formation of economic clusters through targeted financing, using the Saudi Arabian coffee industry as a case study to explore the logic of regional competitiveness enhancement and global supply chain restructuring.
Veerixa business service platform has officially launched, exploring a new global information dissemination model that integrates AI Visibility with Search Visibility, helping enterprises adapt to AI-driven information discovery environments.
ASEAN is shifting from raw material exports to battery manufacturing, electric vehicle promotion, and grid integration, driving regional industrial chain upgrades through technical cooperation and standardization.
In the context of global supply chain restructuring, Vietnam's industrial parks are facing an urgent need to transform from traditional manufacturing bases into integrated ecosystems of technology, innovation, and green development. This article analyzes the challenges of attracting tech giants to Vietnam's industrial parks and the characteristics of a new generation of industrial parks.
Based on this week's global private equity M&A dynamics, this provides an in-depth analysis of structural trends in capital flows toward energy infrastructure, clean technology, technology, and healthcare, revealing the investment logic under geopolitical and industrial restructuring.
This article analyzes from a global investment perspective the overlooked situation of small-scale supplier networks in the process of U.S. manufacturing reshoring. By examining successful cases such as the Carolina textile district and FORGE, as well as how AI platforms enhance supply chain visibility, it reveals the deep impact of regional manufacturing network restructuring on capital flows, industrial resilience, and long-term competitiveness.
Vietnam's industrial parks are undergoing fundamental changes, shifting from traditional manufacturing spaces to ecosystems integrating technology, innovation, logistics, and green energy to attract global tech giants.
Philippine PEZA deepens integration with Japanese industrial capital, with multiple large-scale manufacturing projects confirmed for expansion, revealing a new node in the eastward shift of the global supply chain.
A study based on 6,638 protected areas and 50 million enterprise records in China shows that stricter protection policies are associated with higher enterprise turnover, with the ecological benefits from enterprise entry exceeding those from exit, though there are local trade-offs in some industrial transfers. This finding provides a pathway for Global South countries to balance ecological protection and economic development through industrial transformation rather than simple exclusion.
India's state-owned mining company NMDC is accelerating digitalization and sustainable mining to support its vision of producing 100 million tons of iron ore annually by 2030. This strategy reflects a deeper shift in the global flow of mining capital: technological efficiency and ESG compliance are becoming core competencies for resource-rich countries to attract foreign investment. The article analyzes India's regional competitive position in the mining sector, the logic of industrial chain restructuring, and long-term trends from a global investment perspective.
India's net FDI plummeted from $44 billion to less than $1 billion, but total inflows remain strong. This article breaks down the structure of FDI, revealing deep-seated issues such as the dominance of financial investors, the shrinking of manufacturing investment, and the acceleration of capital outflows, while assessing their impact on India's strategy for the rise of its manufacturing sector.