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Another day, another #PPA.
Data centre provider @Equinix signs first PPA in Asia-Pacific, as greening electricity supply and rising investments in APAC become entrenched trends.
#greenenergy #datacentres
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Fresh from the Autumn Statement, the #UK government launches push to shore up growth and #FDI
Is all this enough to stimulate #growth and nab the sort of FDI the UK wants/needs? @fDiIntelligence
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Following the Xi-Biden meeting last week, I wrote a lil' op ed about my experience covering #China's falling #FDI and why over the last two years this story has been building and building...
Read all about it here !
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Most of the top 20 countries by share of #Stem tertiary graduates are in the developing world. The top three were #Malaysia (40.2%), #Turkmenistan (39.6%) and #Oman (39.5%).
Discover why here 👉 on.ft.com/3tYB2bQ
#data #dataviz #GraphTime #tech #education
#Chinese outbound FDI is at a record high so far in 2023, as #greenfield investments outstrip M&A investments.
“Chinese outbound FDI has entered a new phase,” says Luisa Kinzius, director at @sinolytics.
Full story here!
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Thanks @ZongyuanZoeLiu for writing this book! Please anyone who wants to know more about China and its gigantic wealth funds, pls read Sovereign Funds:
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I am very happy that Financial Times @fDiIntelligence Seth O’Farrell @sofarrelll did a great review of my book. Much appreciate the careful read and the attention to SLFs - Sovereign Leveraged Funds🙏😊 fdiintelligence.com/content/… @CFR_org @Harvard_Press @HarvardUPLondon
Green finance people, this is great.
"[Institutional investors'] preferences and constraints are an important but rarely acknowledged obstacle to market-led decarbonisation."
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More than $200bn has been announced in US manufacturing one year after the IRA and Chips Act
But companies & analysts say China is far from losing its grip on global supply chains for clean energy
A deep dive into the money here w @ollie @AlexIrwinHunt
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Will #AI make economic development organisations into consultants?
@ChrisPCamacho tells me that AI is “massively disruptive” for #investment promotion, as sales pitches give way to a data-driven dialogue with investors.
Do you agree? #FDI #digital
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Global community is 'ill equipped' to tackle #climate change without investing in #biodiversity, @dannyalexander, vice president for policy and strategy at @AIIB_Official, tells @sofarrelll.
#FDI #banks #nature #capital
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#India is the biggest beneficiary of @AIIB_Official support, with a total of $9.5bn-worth of committed finance, which accounts for some 26.6% of the bank’s total committed finance between 2016 and March this year.
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Full story by @sofarrelll.
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The #pandemic has changed the way we work, commute and live. This will further reduce demand for office space and impact other commercial #realestate in #cities, according to @McKinsey
Read @AlexIrwinHunt #FDI/#econdev story here: on.ft.com/3pDYQjP
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More than 110 countries have reach an agreement at the @wto aimed at facilitating more foreign investment into developing countries.
Read @AlexIrwinHunt #FDI/#econdev story here: on.ft.com/3rgcSbB
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In a new series about uses of #AI in #FDI, @sofarrelll looks into why @EstoniaInvest has been ahead of the pack in integrating #automation into investment promotion. What AI tools have you been using? #IPAs
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Among the top 100 investors in R&D, Chinese #EV maker @BYDCompany increased its spending the most in 2022, compared with 2021. It was followed by US #semiconductor company @AMD and #biotech firm @moderna_tx.
Discover the 2022 global #innovation leaders: on.ft.com/43ZdnWb
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David Meyerowitz, CEO of Haier UK, tells @sofarrelll why the Chinese white goods company has been successful in #Europe and how its ‘rendanheyi’ management structure allows it to carry out tailor-made #innovation.
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ICYMI: Your long read this weekend.
Four men’s story — and the truth behind the “British-caught” fish we eat.
Free to read online in English and Filipino, the first time the FT has published simultaneously in two languages.
Or in print in @FTMag.
ig.ft.com/filipino-fishermen…
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India attracted more foreign greenfield investment in R&D than any other country in 2022. In our latest cover story, @sofarrelll investigates how MNCs taking advantage of the country's talent and costs is spurring its emergence as a global innovation hub
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Latest on #Macron vs US’ Inflation Reduction Act.
One analyst says that the French president will position #France as the EU’s national counterpart to the #IRA.
What do you think?
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Business leaders have urged UK MPs to urgently support investment in the #EV, #battery and #criticalmineral supply chains. Otherwise the country will fail to attract #gigafactories and see a "gradual decline" of its #auto industry, reports@AlexIrwinHunt.
on.ft.com/3VY66m3