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 policy-making at the national and international levels...

The 2009/2010 edition of Investment Yearbook addresses such issues as investment flows, trends in international investment agreements, treaty-based arbitration cases, the procedural side, and ICSID.The edition includes articles by Persephone Economou and Karl P. Sauvant; Peter Muchlinski; Ian A....

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 evolves. Thus, finding the proper balance between protecting...

Governments throughout the world have sought, and are seeking, to attract foreign direct investment and, for that purposed, have liberalized their national regulatory frameworks for FDI and established a strong international investment law regime. However, there are signs that, as a result of a...

The threat of rising foreign direct investment (FDI) protectionism is worrying policy-makers, investment promotion agencies (IPAs), and multinational enterprises (MNEs). The Heads of State or Government of the G20 underlined this in their Declaration of November 15, 2008 when they agreed on a...

This chapter begins with a brief discussion of the latest trends in FDI. It then turns to an analysis of policies related to outward foreign direct investment and discusses issues that relate to them. It argues that FDI flows have managed to sustain their recovery in the aftermath of the 2008...