Overview
Provide an independent peer review of the GUARD methodology note and results/paper draft, and advise on methodological soundness, interpretive limits, and policy framing for policymakers.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide a technical and interpretive peer review of the GUARD methodology note and results draft paper.
- Ensure internal consistency of concepts, notation, assumptions, and narrative.
- Provide specific, detailed, and operational comments indicating exact changes needed.
- Where proposing cross-checks or alternative datasets, indicate data existence, accessibility, and sufficiency.
- Provide in-depth review contributions in at least two thematic areas: data inputs and statistical perimeter, econometric strategy and implementation choices, or validation exercises, correlation/triangulation options, and interpretive caveats.
- Evaluate credibility and plausibility of findings, explaining ambiguities or potential artefacts.
- Propose policy-safe implications for FDI policy, investment promotion, tax policy, treaty design, and investment incentives/safeguards.
- Propose concrete messages for policymakers and revise current messages, including disclaimer language and follow-up actions.
- Propose draft text for a short box on country case studies if relevant country-context experience exists.
- Suggest improvements to structure, clarity, and presentation of documents.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of professional work experience in applied research and/or policy work relevant to at least 2 of the following areas:
- FDI statistics and international investment position/balance of payments compilation, analysis, including IMF/OECD/UNCTAD standards and SPE/pass-through considerations.
- Applied econometrics for international finance/trade, including gravity models.
- Corporate structures and investment routing, including conduit/phantom/pass-through investment, profit shifting, beneficial ownership transparency and related financial integrity considerations.
- Investment and tax policy implications, including investment incentives/safeguards, treaty and incentive design considerations, and policy-safe interpretation of empirical screening results.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree in economics, econometrics or related field is required.
