The global community can address the collapse of investment following COVID-19, drive digital transformation, and help achieve the SDGs through five actions: (1) establish a Facility and Fund to provide resources for technical assistance and facilitate private-public collaboration, including...

The global community can address the collapse of investment following COVID-19, drive digital transformation, and help achieve the SDGs through five actions: (1) establish a Facility and Fund to provide resources for technical assistance and facilitate private–public collaboration, including...

We show that non-binding law can have a constraining e ffect on political leaders, because legal compliance is a costly signal to imperfectly informed voters that the leader is unbiased. Moreover, non-binding law can also have a liberating effect, enabling some leaders to take action when they...

This presentation, at the first webinar of the T20 Task Force 1 on Trade, Investment, and Growth during the Saudi Arabian G20 Presidency, argues for twin efforts directed at 'Digital FDI' and Sustainable FDI. The author elaborates these concepts and a number of specific measures to advance these...

This article analyzes the effect of the cost that an agency must incur to adopt a new regulation (the enactment cost ) on the agency's incentive to invest in expertise. The effect of the enactment cost on agency expertise depends on whether the agency would regulate if it fails to acquire...

The Inventory was prepared in the framework of the investment facilitation for development project undertaken by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the German Development Institute (DIE). It is an informal and unofficial compilation of investment facilitation measures, their rationale and...

New technologies can help drive sustainable development, what can be called “SusTech” solutions. But how can these be supported by governments adopted by firms (especially in managing value chains) and encouraged by users? This policy brief proposes a threepart solution: (1) The G20 should...