Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States - Sustainability

Political Risk Insurance as a Tool for Sustainable Investment Policy in LDCs: MIGA and Beyond (2018)

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 22:28:00 +0000

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Supporting small-scale farmers and women’s groups variety of seeds, tools and equipment in Sudan.

Alun McDonald / Oxfam

At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA), world leaders pledged to: “to adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for LDCs [and] offer financial and technical support for (…) access to information on investment facilities and risk insurance and guarantees such as through MIGA, as requested by the LDCs.” This study examines existing political investment insurance programs and related risk management facilities for foreign investment, in particular those of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), as they apply to LDCs.

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Encouraging Sustainable Foreign Investment to the LDCs: Options for Support (2018)

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:35:00 +0000

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The solar energy skills project in Zambia.

Marcel Crozet / ILO

This paper focuses on what the development partners of least developed countries (LDCs) can do to help those countries get more ‘sustainable’ foreign investment - investment that contributes to their sustainable development - and indicates some options for support that need to be further explored. It addresses the investment attraction measures that LDCs themselves can take only in as far these can be supported by development partners. Thus, the paper reviews outward investment promotion and facilitation measures that can be undertaken by foreign investors’ home countries to foster foreign investment flows into the LDCs, as well as the support that development partners can provide to LDCs’ inward promotion and facilitation activities that seek to attract foreign investment into the LDCs.

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