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    • Overcoming barriers to capital flows

    Institutional investors – who hold most of global wealth – direct most of their capital into public markets. Despite their potential to drive climate action and sustainable development, emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) make up only a small share of institutional investment portfolios. This means that even a small shift in public market investments toward EMDEs could mobilise billions to the markets that need it most.

    MOBILIST’s research explores the factors that drive – and limit – capital flows to EMDEs. This includes examining how investors make allocation decisions, the role of risk perceptions and return expectations, and the growing influence of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. By understanding and addressing these barriers, MOBILIST hopes to unlock new capital for investment into emerging and frontier markets.

  • Research Report
    • 05.02.2026

    Secondary Market Vehicles in EMDEs: Lessons and Implications for Development Actors

    Weak exit routes and limited liquidity constrain capital markets in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Across infrastructure and real estate, project developers often struggle to sell down or refinance operating assets, which slows capital recycling and constrains their ability to originate new projects. This report examines how scalable secondary market vehicles can help address these constraints by providing structured exit pathways for existing investors, improving liquidity, and supporting more effective capital recycling.

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  • Research Report
    • 12.09.2024

    Research Report: Innovative Deals in Development Finance: Originate to Demonstrate

    Research commissioned by MOBILIST and produced by Risk Control Limited examines how transactions by development finance institutions (DFIs) can remove or mitigate informational or other barriers to trigger follow-on or ‘copycat’ transactions by other financial institutions. These follow-on transactions—where the DFI is no longer directly involved—can increase the ultimate development impact of the original transaction.

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  • Research Report
  • Policy and regulations
    • 13.06.2023

    Financial Regulation and Capital Flows to EMDEs

    Financial regulation within advanced economies is a key driver of capital flows to emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). This study examines a number of regulatory policy issues labelled “regulatory frictions” where developed country or global regulations may adversely affect economic and financial developments in EMDEs.

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  • Research Report
  • ESG, Emerging market capital flows
    • 28.04.2023

    Resetting the ESG Investment Paradigm to Support Emerging Markets & Developing Economies

    The mainstreaming of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations is increasingly shaping the flow of capital to and among emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). This study assesses the nature and extent of this influence and documents how EMDEs are responding to shape the ESG paradigm to their specific objectives and market context.

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  • Research Report
  • Data and transparency, Development finance, Policy and regulations, Impact management
    • 14.06.2022

    Drivers of Investment Flows to Emerging and Frontier Markets

    Intellidex presents findings from interviews with more than 50 market participants, analysing their latest emerging and frontier market allocation strategies.

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  • Research Report
  • Development finance, Product structures, Data and transparency
    • 01.03.2021

    MOBILIST – The Exit Mobilisation Opportunity in Africa

    ‘Exit-mobilisation’ refers to the process through which a public sector owned development finance institution (DFI) exits an investment by selling its holding to commercial investors.

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