Archive of Theme: Trade and Investment

Profiling and engaging impact investors

Profiling and engaging impact investors

Profiling and engaging impact investors

As an asset class and idea, impact investing is growing. Mainstream fund managers have entered the arena, raising awareness about the issues associated with the core tenets of impact investing. While this is great for the industry, it is less certain what effect this will have on emerging and frontier market investing, including countries such as Jordan. In 2019, Expectation State worked with USAID and Read More

Conducting an agri-sector market study

Conducting an agri-sector market study

We were engaged by a US-headquartered organisation to conduct an agriculture market study in Libya to identify the expansion potential of the country’s wheat market. We looked into the business potential of the Wheat and Flour industries, and developed a Read More

Coaching export promotion and trade agencies

Coaching export promotion and trade agencies

The project PEMA II, is mandated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in cooperation with the Tunisian Ministry of Commerce and Export Development and CEPEX. Read More

Delivering Jordan’s investment strategy with the Ministry of Investment

Delivering Jordan’s investment strategy with the Ministry of Investment

The Government of Jordan’s Economic Modernisation vision, launched in June 2022, sets an ambitious direction for achieving sustainable growth and creating job opportunities over the next decade. It requires $30 billion of investment and financing to meet the expected demand Read More

Surveying private markets investment allocation strategies

Surveying private markets investment allocation strategies

We spent nine months speaking with 70+ C-Suite institutional investors and investment managers to increase their awareness of our focus states as investment destinations.  Following discussions with investors from our network in London, Edinburgh, New York, Washington DC, Zurich, Geneva, Read More