There is growing support behind an international framework to facilitate investment for sustainable development. This policy brief suggests that the G20 consider adopting guiding principles on investment facilitation for sustainable development, to help ensure that these efforts result in an...

This Policy Brief argues that investment policies should be a core item on the agenda of the G20 and its Trade and Investment Working Group in particular. Specifically: The G20 should continue its important work on international investment policy reform and initiate steps to operationalize the...

China has become a major home country for outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. As a result, the country is increasingly concerned with protecting its outward FDI and facilitating the operations of its firms investing abroad and creating a strong universal international investment law...

China has become a major home country for outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. As a result, the country is increasingly concerned with protecting its outward FDI and facilitating the operations of its firms investing abroad and creating a strong universal international investment law...

This two-page text suggests that the G20 establish an FDI Facility as part of a spare-no-effort response to the economic impact of the pandemic and to help accelerate sustainable FDI flows for sustainable development. It discusses briefly a number of issues related to establishing such a Facility

China is increasingly concerned with protecting its outward foreign direct investment, facilitating the operations of its firms abroad and creating a strong international investment law and policy regime. After briefly reviewing the emergence of China as an outward investor and some policy...