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Only Two of Top 10 Inward FDI Leaders by Value in the OECD Saw Growth in 2023. But What’s Up in Estonia?

Twice a year, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publishes “FDI in Figures.” The most recent release dropped April 30, showing that global FDI flows dropped by 7% in 2023 to US$1.36 trillion, including a decrease in more than two-thirds of the 38 OECD economies.

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Online Insider

Digital Nomads Find a Home in Dubai

by Ron Starner

Emirate’s initiative to attract tech workers pays dividends.

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: May 28, 2024

AstraZeneca marked its arrival in Singapore with a $1.5 billion investment toward an antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) manufacturing facility.

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Snapshot

Hispanic Home Ownership Soars Despite National Affordability Obstacles

If attainable workforce housing is on your radar, then recent reports from two valuable resources should be too.

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: May 20, 2024

Pharmaceutical company Sanofi announced last week that it would be investing more than $1.1 billion in three of its sites in France.

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Snapshot

Export Champions Start Small But Don’t Think Small

If every picture tells a story, then every trophy does too.

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Texas by the Numbers

Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the economic output.

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Wide Open Spaces for Wanders

When’s the last time you went boot-scootin’ in Texas?

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Nowhere Tops Texas

by Lindsay Lopp

Opportunities unlike anywhere else.

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Paradise Found: Creatives Prefer Texas

by Alexis Elmore

You bring the ideas. We’ll provide the resources.

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King of the Hill

by Gary Daughters

No beef about it, Texas is tops for farms and ranches.

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Project Bulletin

Project Bulletin: May 13, 2024

With $3.3 billion in tow, Microsoft has plans to deliver a state-of-the-art data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. In late 2023, it was announced that Microsoft would be acquiring two facilities previously owned by Taiwan-based electronics company Foxconn, which failed to deliver its $10 billion commitment.

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A Board as Big as Texas

by Ron Starner

Meet the CEOs who comprise the TxEDC Board of Directors.

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Special Advertising Sections

Shovel Ready Sites: Getting Ready for Prime Time

by Adam Bruns

What good is a prepared and certified industrial site if electrical power can’t get to it?

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Area Spotlights

Fueling the Future of Colorado’s Life Sciences Sector

by Lindsay Lopp

A group of 22 partners representing Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem have banded together to fund a new national economic development campaign to bolster Colorado into “America’s epicenter for life sciences innovation.” Launched in February, the Colorado Hub for Healthcare Impact comprises entities from each level of the state’s life sciences network The campaign highlights six […]

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Departments

IAMC Insider: Two Halves Make a Whole

Iwork for a wonderful company. One of the reasons I think of PepsiCo that way is the way it empowers women — you know, those people who make up half the world’s population. It’s why the company signed the White House Equal Pay Pledge in 2016. More recently, during Women’s History Month this spring, the […]

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Area Spotlights

Ohio Claims the Top Two Emerging Hubs for Biotech Research

by Lindsay Lopp

In February, Amgen opened its “most advanced facility to date” in New Albany, Ohio.

Photo courtesy of Amgen

CBRE’s U.S. Life Sciences Research Talent 2023 report named not one but two Ohio cities among the top emerging hubs for researchers. Out of the nine clusters ranked, Columbus and Cincinnati, No.1 and No.2, were the only cities included from the same state. Both represent robust research institution networks that have received significant support through […]

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Area Spotlights

Interstate 35: A Texas Economic Artery’s Course Of Treatment

by Mark Arend

A rendering of Walmart’s new milk processing facility under construction in Robinson, Texas

Photo courtesy of Walmart

Interstate 35 runs from Duluth, Minnesota, to Laredo, Texas, making it a key north-south artery through the central United States for moving imports and exports to and from Canada and Mexico. Besides the state capitals of St. Paul, Des Moines, Oklahoma City and Austin, I-35 links Kansas City, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio and the […]

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Investment Reports

Costa Rica: The Evolution of an Economy

by Adam Bruns

The Evolution of an Economy

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Area Spotlights

Iowa: Seeing the Whole Court

by Adam Bruns

Nabyl Agourar is one of more than 800 employee-owners at Cedar Rapids–based Van Meter Inc., which operates 25 locations in seven states.

Image courtesy of Van Meter Inc.

Two growing companies from Cedar Rapids shoot to national prominence by knowing how to dish off value for others.

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Features

North American Automotive: Speedbumps Here, Cruise Control There

by Mark Arend

Hyundai Motor Group in October celebrated the one-year anniversary of the groundbreaking for its Metaplant for EV and battery manufacturing in Bryan County, Georgia.

Image courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group

Companies and locations adjust to a new industry landscape.

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Area Spotlights

Utah: Got Minerals?

by Alexis Elmore

Mines like the Kennecott Bingham Canyon Copper Mine showcase the rich mineral deposits in the state.

Photo: Getty Images

Miners head beneath Utah’s natural wonders to strike gold (among other critical minerals).

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Features

Oil & Gas: Federal Pause on New LNG Export Terminals Doesn’t Mean Pause of Exports or Expansions Already Underway

by Adam Bruns

Cheniere’s Sabine Pass Liquefaction export terminal in Louisiana can accommodate three vessels.

Photo courtesy of Bechtel

The federal government early this year hit “pause” on further LNG export terminals in order to reconsider some aspects of the environmental review process. But that doesn’t mean the LNG exports that began in February 2016 have paused. That very same government’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a State of the Markets report in March […]

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Area Spotlights

How Factories Are Changing in Kentucky

by Ron Starner

Blink 2022 at Hotel Covington in Covington, Kentucky.

Courtesy of BE NKY Growth Partnership

Hint: They’re getting cleaner, greener and bigger.

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