investment and investment governance on sustainable development have evolved, it is not clear that IIAs, as currently designed …International investment agreements (“IIAs”) provide enforceable protections to foreign investors based on the premise … that enforceable investor protections will stimulate greater foreign investment flows, which, in turn, are assumed to …

Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ventured an intriguing look into the future of development. In particular, the … conference highlighted the role of networks in overcoming challenges for sustainable development and reshaping international … Sustainable Development: networks and partnerships, on the one hand, and cooperation with MICs, on the other. As modes of …

' reports turn out to provide a rich illustration of the mechanisms through which MNEs (can) affect economic development …

direct investment ; productivity spillover ; investor country characteristics …

-intensive manufacturing expanded, especially in China. In land-abundant developing regions, however, manufacturing stagnated or declined …

which have yet to be resolved, which concern the comparative advantage and future role of Official Development Assistance …

financial subordination in Africa. Diverging from the official narrative that touts China and the other emerging economies as …Chapter 1. Entrapment of Africa in an Asymmetrical Global Economy -- Chapter 2. Multinational Corporations and Tax … Pathologies of Sovereign Debt -- Chapter 6. Imperial Ecocide and the Bane of Global Climate Finance -- Chapter 7. Africa and the …

-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa … scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …