Ayhan Kose, the deputy chief economist of the World Bank Group, speaks to fDi about the challenges of attracting FDI amid spiralling public debt levels, the risks of a fragmenting global economy and geopolitics.

Editing undertaken by Louis Bird-Mendez.

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