This contribution to a Festschrift for Dr. SKB Asante, the leading in-house expert on matters related to investment policy-making at the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, discusses a number of issues related to investment policy-making at the national and international levels...

With US$84 billion of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) flows, China became the world's third-largest outward investor in 2012, behind the United States and Japan. This signals impressive progress given that the country ranked only 20th a decade ago, when the ‘going global' policy was...

This brief article focusses on three important reasons why an Investment Facilitation for Agreement is important for individual WTO Members and why, therefore, all Members should join the negotiations: it helps countries to retain and attract more and higher quality FDI flows; it constitutes a...