This article summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Fourth Columbia International Investment Conference, which gathered leading economists, representatives of governments and intergovernmental organizations, legal practitioners, and development experts. The Conference addressed how...

The 2009/2010 edition of Investment Yearbook addresses such issues as investment flows, trends in international investment agreements, treaty-based arbitration cases, the procedural side, and ICSID.The edition includes articles by Persephone Economou and Karl P. Sauvant; Peter Muchlinski; Ian A....

The recovery of world investment flows will depend substantially on how the world economy will perform in 2011 and beyond, on how MNEs perceive the risks of investing abroad and on how the regulatory environment for foreign investment evolves. Thus, finding the proper balance between protecting...