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The great trade realignment: Asia rising

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Trade flows worldwide are reconfiguring as geopolitical alignments fragment and future-shaping industries grow in importance, potentially leading to a generational shift in global trade patterns.
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UK-India: A 21st-century partnership
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A new free trade agreement offers the United Kingdom and India the opportunity to become economic powerhouses.
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Asia’s emerging business corridors: New highways to growth
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As geopolitical shifts affect global business corridors, opportunities are opening for companies. Asia is positioned at the epicenter...
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A new trade paradigm: How shifts in trade corridors could affect business
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Trade routes face high variability in growth under different scenarios, with one-third of global trade potentially exposed to...
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The rise of Asian global players
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Asian companies have a chance to become global players and leaders of a new era. The region’s technological prowess, industrial...
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Report - MGI Research
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,...
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India’s future arenas: Engines of growth and dynamism
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India, which played a limited role in the global arenas before, could now build on inherent endowments and large-scale sectors...
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Propelling Indonesia’s productivity: Reaching high income by 2045
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Indonesia has set an ambition to become a high-income economy by 2045. Is this possible? Two McKinsey experts discuss how it...
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Singapore’s bold bets: Shaping Asia’s next act
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Global managing partner Bob Sternfels and senior partner Gautam Kumra, chairman of McKinsey Asia, explain why they see Singapore...
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Closing Japan’s valuation gap by changing corporate traditions
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Cultural and structural reform can help Japanese companies realize their full potential.

Geopolitics

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Beyond the headlines: How trade agreements are reshaping business

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Regional and bilateral trade agreements are proliferating at a rapid pace. While the resulting trade environment is complex, it presents myriad opportunities for entering new markets.
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In conversation: Asia at the geoeconomic crossroads
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Asian governments and companies are striving to adapt to shifting trade winds and escalating strategic competition. Three experts...
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Upgrading corporate affairs for a new geopolitical era
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Geopolitical tensions and economic competition are raising the demands on corporate-affairs teams. Here are five ways they can...
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How CEOs are responding to geopolitical uncertainty
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When the rules of global trade could change any day, how do you make decisions? McKinsey experts report from the business frontlines...
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The great trade rearrangement
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A newly defined “rearrangement ratio” gauges the potential to rearrange US imports from China and how this could ripple across...
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Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Multinationals at a crossroads: Adapting to a new geopolitical era
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Leaders of multinational companies are grappling with fundamental questions about how to operate globally in a fragmenting world....
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How boards can tackle geopolitical risk
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Three experts discuss the challenges corporate boards face in managing growing geopolitical risk, and how to tackle them.
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Risk rebalancing: Five important geopolitical-risk questions for CIOs
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CIOs need to apply a much broader view of possible failure modes, where their assets are, and where the people who manage the...
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Article - MGI Research
Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade: 2025 update
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Trade reconfiguration continues along geopolitical lines, this update with 2024 data shows.
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Trade, tech, and geopolitics: Asia in 2025
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In a year of uncertainty, discussions at Davos suggested that Asia has reason to be optimistic in 2025 and beyond, and could...

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Battery 2035: Building new advantages
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Lowering costs and improving performance for battery electric vehicles entails adopting rapidly evolving technologies, localizing...
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Asia–Pacific consumer sentiment: Stability, selectivity, and spending shifts
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Easing inflation and shifting confidence are reshaping how consumers spend—and how companies should prepare for what comes...
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The future of risk: How global trends are reshaping risk management
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A rapidly shifting and interconnected risk landscape, technology, and AI transform what good risk management looks like. Financial...
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Strengthening the future: Steel for growth and resilience
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The global steel industry stands at an inflection point as shifting patterns of consumption, regulatory pressures, and economic...
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Shaping the future of India’s pharmaceutical operations
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India, the world’s largest producer of generic medicines, faces major technological and geopolitical disruptions. Eight...
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How a digital, operational, and skills transformation took Jubilant Ingrevia’s business to the next level
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A diverse, cross-functional McKinsey team helped a leading global organization in life science ingredients and specialty chemicals...
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Improving organizational health in Indian companies
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Organizational health and performance go hand in hand. Three critical practices differentiate the healthiest organizations in...
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Wanted: A new economic playbook
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Here is how India can reach consistent 8 to 9 percent real GDP growth required to become developed by 2047.
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Podcast
Propelling Indonesia’s productivity: Reaching high income by 2045
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Indonesia has set an ambition to become a high-income economy by 2045. Is this possible? Two McKinsey experts discuss how it...
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Looking under the hood: A new approach to mobility investing?
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As overall investment trends in future mobility have remained steady, analysis reveals that the market is undergoing deeper structural...
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Five big tests for Australia’s productivity agenda
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Australia’s economic engine is stalling. To reignite growth, new initiatives must pass five tests for how effectively they...