On the basis of certain assumptions and an estimated workload, this Note presents a hypothetical budget and discusses possible sources of funds to establish and maintain an Advisory Centre on International Investment Law

Negotiations on an Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement have been underway in the WTO since September 2020; they are meant to be concluded by the end of 2022. The negotiations are far advanced and focus on a wide range of specific, technical investment measures that governments can put...

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...

Collected here are papers from the conference, Thinking Outward, which dealt with a range of issues related to the key players in this process - firms, home countries and host countries and the book will have a foreword from Jeffrey Sachs. In the wake of the financial crisis, these issues remain...

1. Is the United States ready for FDI from China? : overview / Karl P. Sauvant -- 2. Modes of entry by Chinese firms in the United States : economic and political issues / Steven Globerman and Daniel Shapiro -- 3. The US regulatory and institutional framework for FDI / David N. Fagan -- 4. The...