Investment Flows into Commonwealth Small States: Trends, Challenges and Implications

This paper, the first of a two-part series, unpacks key trends in investment flows to Commonwealth small states, identifying the factors and challenges influencing their ability to attract investment, and exploring innovative models, policies and practices to help grow inward investment. These countries face an array of structural handicaps and vulnerabilities that not only hold back their growth and development but also dampen their prospects for attracting investment at scale. Even so, as this paper stresses, small states can work proactively to place themselves in a more competitive position to attract sustained inward investment in the future.