This second edition of this publication provides an overview of important contemporary issues relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises for all those who are interested in this subject, but are not always in a position to follow diverse perspectives and what is...

The rise of FDI is accompanied by an increasingly stronger international investment regime, enforced by an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism. Still, MNEs are becoming increasingly concerned about political risk in host countries. Governments and some multilateral organizations offer...

As China's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown, its approach to international investment agreements (IIAs) has changed. China is now one of the world's most important outward investors, with Chinese FDI facing widespread criticism. The challenge for China is to adapt to this new...

In late 2008, as financial markets were crashing, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment launched the Columbia FDI Perspectives. The first Perspective, entitled “The FDI recession has begun,” correctly forecast an FDI recession in the following year. From that first...

China is now one of the world's most important outward investors. The salient features of the country's cross-border direct investments (discussed in the first section) include that its foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown rapidly, that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) play a dominant role...