Practitioner opinion · Public Policy
Reclaiming public value by turning news from noise into signal
How AI could help audiences test claims against evidence, and why that works only if the guardrails are as visible as the headlines.
Research
Journal articles, books and book chapters, policy briefs, discussion papers, reports and practitioner opinions by lill researchers, across the three pillars and five programmes. Every entry carries its pillar, programme, full author list and a link to the publisher or the document.
Pathways for Development
Reclaiming Public Value
Shaping the Future of Trade
Strategic Collaboration
Supporting the Energy Transition
42 publications in Public Policy · sorted by date · page 1 of 3
Practitioner opinion · Public Policy
Creating a resilient and sustainable future through strategic collaboration
Why Europe should treat development investment as partnership rather than expense, illustrated by the Lobito Corridor.
Policy brief · Public Policy
From tariff escalation to strategic realignment: how the EU is shaping the future of global trade
Can free trade agreements backed by export credit agencies give the EU a resilient answer to protectionism, conflict and trade policy uncertainty?
Policy brief · Public Policy
Investment in a turbulent era: pathways for development
As foreign direct investment concentrates in strategic sectors, how can developing countries find realistic entry points rather than join subsidy races they cannot win?
Journal article · Public Policy
Global Environmental Governance and Rights of Nature Discourses in an Age of Deglobalisation: People, Planet, and Power
Argues that failing global environmental governance now meets new ideas such as Rights of Nature, using Ranajit Guha's account of dominance and hegemony to assess their political impact.
Report · Public Policy
Annual report 2025
What did the lill Institute research, publish, teach and convene in 2025, its first full year of operation?
Policy brief · Public Policy
Reconstructing global cooperation in a neorealist moment
Middle powers cannot simply adapt to a world of power politics. This brief sets out how they can build a “Third Pole” coalition instead.
Book chapter · Public Policy
The impact of multilateral and plurilateral trade agreements on national trade policy frameworks
How do multilateral and plurilateral trade agreements shape the room African countries have to design their own trade policy?
Journal article · Public Policy
How Can Aid for Trade Support the Resilience of the Least Developed Countries in the Face of Polycrisis?
Sets out four routes – institutional capacity, productive capacity, digital transformation and resource mobilisation – through which aid for trade can make least developed countries more resilient to overlapping crises.
Journal article · Public Policy
Navigating geopolitical and trade megatrends: public export finance in a world of change
How are geopolitical and trade megatrends changing the mandates, products and operations of export credit agencies?
Working paper · Public Policy
Policy approaches to stimulate Georgian exports
Which export promotion programmes and financing tools would help Georgian firms overcome the barriers to selling abroad?
Journal article · Public Policy
Determinants of carbon emissions cycles in the G7 countries
What drives the cyclical ups and downs of carbon emissions in the G7 economies?
Journal article · Public Policy
Neues internationales Regelwerk für staatliche Exportfinanzierungen
What does the new international rulebook for officially supported export finance change, and what challenges remain?
Book chapter · Public Policy
Modelling regional innovation systems in low and middle-income countries
How can agent-based simulation help explain innovation systems in low and middle-income countries, where most existing theory does not fit?
Commentary · Public Policy
Knowledge creation for Africa’s development contexts
Who benefits from knowledge produced about Africa, and how can African Studies research do more to shape the continent’s development?