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The McKinsey Podcast · 2026-04-16 · 19 min · 3,413 words

Follow the money: How FDI is redrawing the global economy

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The FDI is pretty interesting as a kind of upstream indicator and the patterns of trade and how trade is changing due to geopolitics, due to macroeconomics, etc. Let's look at FDI and look at what the signals are now in terms of where the FDI money is going, because it might tell us something about where trade goes next. That's McKinsey partner Nick Leon. You know, historically leaders have looked at foreign direct investment or FDI. as just one of several variables that can help them understand the global economy.

But McKinsey's latest research shows FDI really needs to be a priority. Nick joins me and senior partner Olivia White to get into it. This is the McKinsey podcast, where we help you make sense out of the world's toughest business challenges. I'm Roberta Fassaro, your host for today.

Nick, Olivia, thanks so much for joining the podcast today. Great to be here. Thank you. We're talking today about a recent MGI report on foreign direct investment. For many years, it seems as though

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