Question group
2. Growth and Investment
Questions in this group:
2. Growth and Investment
2.4h What are the best approaches to enabling LMICs that hold reserves of minerals and metals critical to the clean energy transition to maximise the inclusive economic development potential of these reserves, whilst also supporting the goal of diversifying global supply chains of critical minerals?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.4d How can public policy address constraints to geographical and economic mobility for workers displaced from the energy transition and climatic shocks? What policies are required to productively integrate migrants into urban areas?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.4c What are the effects of environmental and climatic shocks on firms and households and what are their behavioural responses? What are the constraints to adaptation? How are the effects and responses shaped by inequality? What are the impacts on migration, within countries and internationally?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.3e What is the role of transport infrastructure and services in enhancing food and energy security, including the role of rural road networks in efficient distribution, impact on cost and incentives to increase productivity?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.3a What works to encourage productive cities, including enhancing the evidence base on the linkages between urban transport and employment (opportunities for employment, differentiated impacts on vulnerable groups including women, girls and people living with disabilities), health care or education? How do formal and informal transportation systems interface and how does this affect productivity and social outcomes?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.2d How can macroeconomic policy best prepare for and respond to shocks, while creating a conducive environment for growth? What options are there for policymakers to tackle elevated debt levels, while protecting investment for growth and essential social spending? How should this approach vary by income level?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.2a What works to increase and improve the quantity and quality of financing for sustainable infrastructure that supports economic development in LMICs, including flows of private financing? How should higher income countries leverage private-sector finance to crowd in investment?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.1e What are the most effective approaches to designing and implementing inclusive economic policies that ensure that women and other marginalised groups contribute to and benefit from economic growth and technological transfer? How does inclusion impact overall productivity and long-term economic resilience?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026