Abstract While some developing countries caught up economically with advanced industrial countries, low or even negative growth of per capita incomes in various developing countries resulted in widening income gaps during the process of globalisation. This article explores three possible...

Abstract The rise in foreign direct investment flowing to developing countries has created high expectations that, by drawing on this source of external financing, developing countries could initiate or accelerate processes of economic catching-up to advanced industrialized countries. By...

Zusammenfassung: Die in vielen internationalen Investitionsabkommen festgeschriebenen Regeln zur Streitschlichtung zwischen ausländischen Investoren und den Gaststaaten stoßen in Politik und Öffentlichkeit auf zunehmenden Widerstand. Die Auswertung einer neueren Datenbank der UNCTAD über...