, the US and the EU illustrate the complex nature of IAs and their challenges in a rapidly evolving international investment … assessments of proposed trade agreements and their negotiations, proposed investment agreements, major infrastructure or capital …

International investment needs are tremendous. This requires that the international investment regime constitutes a … framework for increased flows of sustainable foreign direct investment for sustainable development. The international investment … vector of integration among economies: foreign direct investment and non-equity forms of control by multinational enterprises …

There is a controversy about the extent to which bilateral investment treaties (and double taxation treaties) lead to …

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 … competing for, and benefitting more from, foreign direct investment (FDI), as well as policies supporting outward FDI. At the …

As China's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown, its approach to international investment agreements (IIAs …, the further evolution of international investment law. This article deals briefly with the salient features of China … countries (Section B); and the changing nature of the country's approach to international investment treaties (Section C). The …

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 … particularly important as the international investment regime finds itself in flux as new actors enter the picture and established …