Policies, institutions and finance for lasting 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?
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.
Which export promotion programmes and financing tools would help Georgian firms overcome the barriers to selling abroad?
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.
What public institutions are for, and how to show it.
Lead: Henning MeyerOpen, rules-based trade in an age of economic security.
Lead: Roseline WanjiruHow governments, agencies and business can work together.
Lead: Andreas KlasenFrom climate ambition to credible public delivery.
Lead: Simone Krummaker
