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Gaming industry moves up to next level

A truly global industry, games development is bringing benefits to digital clusters willing to foster it with incentives and tax breaks. Jason Mitchell reports.

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Is India's FDI revival over?

After two strong years, greenfield FDI in India is on the slide. However, brownfield and tech could yet turn things around. 

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AIIB looks to keep sharp focus amid wide remit

Dong-ik Lee, director-general of investment operations at the AIIB, tells fDi about the bank's efforts throughout Asia and further afield.

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Backlash grows over China's development funding

Some of China's Belt and Road Initiative partners are expressing concerns that development cash seems to come with strings attached.

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Is the era of the sweat shop coming to an end?

With links to exploitative labour conditions now hugely damaging to a fashion house's reputation, how is the industry reacting?

Adrienne Klasa

Development Dispatch: China-US rivalry plays out in development finance

Who will benefit from the US and China locking horns over development finance?

Lawrence Yeo

View from Asia: The rise of the smart cities

Careful planning, monitoring and execution are needed to ensure Asia's cities are the smartest.

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Kazakhstan woos investors in diversification bid

Kazakhstan is bidding to increase outside investment with the development of transport links, privatisations, and a new finance centre in Astana.

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Kazakhstan pushes on with major privatisation programme

As part of its plan to reduce government share in the economy to 15%, Kazakhstan aims to sell more than 700 companies by 2020. 

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Digital Economies of the Future 2018/19 – the results

London’s success in attracting major technology companies has helped it to land fDi’s award for best digital economy.