

What could ‘America First’ mean for FDI?
The White House America First policy suggests that job creation is something that should be stimulated through a primarily domestic approach. This, coupled with rhetoric around the likes of NAFTA would seem to underpin that idea. You might think that in this case, US Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) would shift their own strategies (which already often strongly resourced towards domestic attraction), further in this direction and away from Foreign Direct Investment (