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Karl P. Sauvant

2015

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Aim Investment Report 2015: Trends And Policy Challenges, Karl P. Sauvant Mar 2015

Aim Investment Report 2015: Trends And Policy Challenges, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Presented the “AIM Investment Report 2015: Trends and Policy Challenges" at the opening of the “Annual Investment Meeting” in Dubai, 30-31 March 2015.


The Negotiations Of The United Nations Code Of Conduct On Transnational Corporations: Experience And Lessons Learned, Karl P. Sauvant Jan 2015

The Negotiations Of The United Nations Code Of Conduct On Transnational Corporations: Experience And Lessons Learned, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Many of the issues that are today part of the discussions surrounding international investment agreements were first dealt with when governments sought to negotiate a United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations (and various related instruments) almost 40 years ago. The Code was meant to establish a multilateral framework to define, in a balanced manner, the rights and responsibilities of transnational corporations and host country governments in their relations with each other. This article looks at the origins of these negotiations, the underlying interest situations of the participating country groups, the experience of related negotiations, the actual negotiations of …


Aim Investment Report 2015: Trends And Policy Challenges, Karl P. Sauvant Jan 2015

Aim Investment Report 2015: Trends And Policy Challenges, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

In the foreign-direct-investment world, the year 2014 was characterized by policy discussions, especially about the nature of the international investment law and policy regime, its investor-state dispute-settlement mechanism, the role of bilateral investment treaties, and the question of rules for state-owned enterprises. This discussion took place against the backdrop of a decline in world FDI flows by multinational enterprises and the growing attractiveness of emerging markets as host countries and the further rise of outward FDI from these countries.