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Global trade explorer
To navigate a more complex and challenging era requires deeper understanding of the full picture of the evolution of global trade flows and the interdependencies and networks created by them.
Agents, robots, and us: Skill partnerships in the age of AI
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AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines.
Capturing the next big arenas of competition in ten charts
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Arenas are industries that transform the business landscape. As 18 future arenas emerge, companies should understand their own exposure and positioning now.
The hard stuff 2025: Taking stock of progress on the physical challenges of the energy transition
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The energy transition is proceeding, but unevenly. Easier challenges are being solved, but harder ones are stalling.
Out of balance: What’s next for growth, wealth, and debt?
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Amid rising economic uncertainty, this research takes a long-term view on wealth and growth rooted in government, corporate, and household balance sheets.
The FDI shake-up: How foreign direct investment today may shape industry and trade tomorrow
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Announced FDI projects signal further changes in the geometry of global trade and the future map of international business.
Beyond ESG: From checklists to capabilities
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Burgeoning ESG metrics have led to a rethink. Could companies instead focus their particular capabilities to help tackle society’s biggest challenges?
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Progress but uneven: Energy transition reality check
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As COP30 kicks off in Belem, an inevitable question is where does the energy transition stand? New McKinsey Global Institute research offers an answer, by examining the physical transformation at the heart of the transition, write Chris Bradley, Mekala Krishnan, and Humayun Tai in Fortune.
What we can learn from the shake-up in foreign direct investment
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Sumatra, Bucheon, Debrecen, Phoenix: At first glance, these far-flung places could hardly be less alike. But they have something important in common. They have all attracted significant amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI), writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
How foreign direct investment is changing—and why it matters
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Shifts in greenfield FDI are shaking up the industries of the future and rewiring global trade. Geographic distance is easy to understand: look at a map and countries that are eight centimeters apart are obviously more distant than those three centimeters apart. “Geopolitical distance” is a more sophisticated idea: it refers to how closely aligned trade and investment partners are. Japan and the United States, for example, are close geopolitically. Germany and Russia are not, write Olivia White and Tiago Devesa in Foreign Policy.