investment and investment governance on sustainable development have evolved, it is not clear that IIAs, as currently designed …International investment agreements (“IIAs”) provide enforceable protections to foreign investors based on the premise … that enforceable investor protections will stimulate greater foreign investment flows, which, in turn, are assumed to …

reorienting the strategic partnership between China and Africa away from debt diplomacy towards genuine partnership or a breaking … influence Africa’s development stories in a post-Covid world. We examine whether the crisis could serve as a catalyst for … Sino-African relations may change and how this might enable Africa to ‘do development differently’ …

its implications for development. Drawing on extensive research, including field work in Africa and interviews with key … necessary conditions for an IRP development in Africa …The subject of this article is the application of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) to Africa's cultural economy, and …

. This chapter discusses the potential of social impact investment for developing countries, highlighting several examples to … intended impact and expanding the evidence base. The public sector can promote social impact investment, for example by … populations. The chapter makes recommendations for increasing the reach and the scale of social impact investment …

This paper shows that development co-operation from emerging providers – i.e. countries beyond the OECD Development … Assistance Committee (DAC) – significantly increased in recent years, reaching 17% of total global development co-operation in …-operation for development are needed to enable developing countries to manage the external support they receive and to enable …

This paper traces the history of China’s development co-operation system and looks into its practices, touching upon …

; FDI ; policy credibility ; MDGs ; "policy space" ; Mali ; Africa ; investment promotion ; poverty alleviation …There is a stark contrast between the ambitious investment promotion efforts of many least developed countries (LDCs … address domestic infrastructure and investment gaps, this situation cannot be a positive signal for investors (either domestic …

During the period 1950-2002 Africa has experienced a lower degree of economic development than Asia, due to several … also analyse some models which have into account the role of industrial investment and foreign trade in the development of … estimation of some econometric models of African countries, which show the positive role that human capital plays in development …