Do natural disasters affect FDI attractiveness? Investment Monitor dispatchist.com


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The climate crisis means natural disasters are increasingly common and catastrophic, but are investors avoiding the countries most at risk? Devastating floods in Thailand in 2011 came with a huge human cost, while also hitting global supply chains – but do such events lead foreign investors to reassess their relationship with countries at risk from natural disasters?(Photo by Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP via Getty Images) The US, China and India were all within the top five host economies of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2020, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, but those countries also featured in the top...