As discussions intensify to improve the international investment regime, it would be desirable to initiate an independent, open-minded, multi-stakeholder international investment consensus-building process to examine the range of issues associated with international investment law, to determine...

The authors argue that a WTO Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement needs a strong responsible business conduct provision, as such a provision helps to increase the contribution that FDI can make to sustainable development. They suggest some elements of such a provision.

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...