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 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.
14 publications in Pathways for Development · sorted by date
As foreign direct investment concentrates in strategic sectors, how can developing countries find realistic entry points rather than join subsidy races they cannot win?
What strategies and operating choices explain why some non-African export credit agencies perform well in supporting transactions in Africa?
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.
How can political risk insurance help attract investment for the Sustainable Development Goals to developing and least developed countries?
Who provides political risk insurance, where does it go, and how could it do more to attract investment to the least developed countries?
How can development and trade finance be mobilised to build the industrial and trade infrastructure Africa needs?
Which export promotion programmes and financing tools would help Georgian firms overcome the barriers to selling abroad?
What barriers do Georgian exporters face, and which public export promotion approaches could help an upper-middle-income country stimulate exports?
How can agent-based simulation help explain innovation systems in low and middle-income countries, where most existing theory does not fit?
Who benefits from knowledge produced about Africa, and how can African Studies research do more to shape the continent’s development?
Draws on 25 stakeholder interviews to show how institutional voids weaken African universal service funds, and recommends governance reforms and cross-sector collaboration to close the digital divide.
How can South Asia, home to a quarter of humanity but a small share of global output, benefit from the fourth industrial revolution?
Argues that the Enhanced Integrated Framework's evidence-based needs assessments, country ownership and targeted support help least developed countries overcome binding constraints on expanding trade.
Compares African universal service funds and finds that weak policy design, poor stakeholder engagement, limited accountability and political interference stop them extending telecoms coverage to rural areas.