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Aim Investment Report 2015: Trends And Policy Challenges, Karl P. Sauvant
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.
Aim Investment Report 2015: Trends And Policy Challenges, Karl P. Sauvant
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.
G7 Move For Fair And Stable Contracts Can Be A Boon To Developing Economies, Karl P. Sauvant
G7 Move For Fair And Stable Contracts Can Be A Boon To Developing Economies, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, "G7 Move for Fair and Stable Contracts Can be a Boon to Developing Economies,” letter to the editor, Financial Times, 10 July 2014.
Advancing Domestic Development Through Overseas Investment, Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Zitian Chen
Advancing Domestic Development Through Overseas Investment, Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Zitian Chen
Karl P. Sauvant
Strongly politically tied state-owned enterprises, tax-havens and offshore financial centers, and outward investment promotional measures characterize China’s rise to become the world’s third largest outward investor. The article furthermore discusses why the Chinese government supports outward FDI.
Improving The International Investment Law And Policy Regime: Options For The Future
Improving The International Investment Law And Policy Regime: Options For The Future
Karl P. Sauvant
The international investment regime faces broader challenges, as reflected especially in the discussions regarding the investor-state dispute-settlement mechanism and the quest to make the international investment regime more oriented toward sustainable development objectives and to strengthen disciplines for the behavior of multinational enterprises. A number of options of how the regime can be improved are laid out in this booklet, including engaging in fact finding processes; establishing consensus-building working groups; formulating a model international investment agreement; building specific mechanisms to improve the investment regime. and commencing intergovernmental processes. An international investment consensus-building process is advocated to facilitate the improvement of …
Sovereign Investment: Concerns And Policy Reactions
Sovereign Investment: Concerns And Policy Reactions
Karl P. Sauvant
The volume provides a holistic examination and interdisciplinary analysis of issues relating to foreign direct investment by sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SWFs currently hold over $5 trillion worth of funds. SOEs control more than $2 trillion in foreign assets. What rules and procedures do – and should -- govern sovereign investment? The editors address these and other questions in a collection of essays by leading authorities from the IMF, academic institutions, law firms, multinational enterprises, and think tanks. Together, they analyze how sovereign investment has helped to limit the effects of the current global economic crisis, …
Yearbook On International Investment Law And Policy, 2011-2012
Yearbook On International Investment Law And Policy, 2011-2012
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, ed., Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy, 2011-2012 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
You Don’T Have To Be Big To Be A Multinational, Karl P. Sauvant
You Don’T Have To Be Big To Be A Multinational, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, “You Don’t Have to be Big to be a Multinational,” letter to the editor, Financial Times, 25 August 2011.
Overcoming Liability For Foreignness, Karl P. Sauvant
Overcoming Liability For Foreignness, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, "Overcoming Liability for Foreignness,” op. ed., China Daily, 23 May 2011.
Learning From Experience: An Interview With Three Experts, Karl P. Sauvant
Learning From Experience: An Interview With Three Experts, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Interview, under the title “Learning from Experience: An Interview with Three Experts,” Political Risk Insurance Newsletter, vol. VII, issue 1, May 2011, pp. 1, 4-8.
Yearbook On International Investment Law And Policy, 2010-2011
Yearbook On International Investment Law And Policy, 2010-2011
Karl P. Sauvant
Today, international investment law consists of a network of multifaceted, multilayered international treaties that, in one way or another, involve virtually every country of the world. The evolution of this network continues, raising a host of issues regarding international investment law and policy, especially in the area of international investment disputes. The Yearbook on International Investment law & Policy 2010-2011 addresses current developments and salient trends in international investment law and policy. the current volume includes a Symposium on the new EU competency and chapters addressing such central issues as essential security clauses, climate change law, land acquisitions, State-controlled entities, …
Reports Of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations
Reports Of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations
Karl P. Sauvant
This comprehensive two-volume work is a collection of determinations from OPIC, the US governmental political risk insurance provider, in the form of its Memoranda of Determinations from 1966 to 2010. This reference work is the first to make the underlying primary material available to the investment law, political risk and academic communities. The authors have made the claims determinations more accessible with the inclusion of headnote summaries for all determinations. The determinations reflect the decisions of OPIC under US and international law and therefore have a significant impact on its future claims determinations. They reveal what types of claims have …
The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options
The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options
Karl P. Sauvant
The transboundary flow of capital directed at establishing businesses is the engine of the world economy. Approximately 3,000 bilateral and regional investment protection treaties worldwide govern this driver of economic globalization. As might be expected, the international investment regime now competes with the World Trade Organization for global praise and criticism. This volume looks at how these treaties and investor-state arbitrations that apply them accommodate the different expectations of various stockholders, including governments, foreign investors and civil society. The volume’s diverse authors focus especially on the views of developing countries and international civil society. They address the extent to which …
International Investment Law In Transition, Karl P. Sauvant, Jose E. Alvarez
International Investment Law In Transition, Karl P. Sauvant, Jose E. Alvarez
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant and Jose E. Alvarez, “International Investment Law in Transition,” in Jose E. Alvarez and Karl P. Sauvant, with Kamil Gerard Ahmed and Gabriela del P. Vizcaino, eds., The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xxxi-xlii.
The Regulatory Framework For Investment: Where Are We Headed?, Karl P. Sauvant
The Regulatory Framework For Investment: Where Are We Headed?, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
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 number of important developments(which are being discussed in some detail in this chapter), governments are reevaluating their stance toward FDI, or at least certain types of it. This re-evaluation has found its expression in a number of regulatory changes that may eventually lead to a regime that balances the rights of investors and host countries in …
We Must Guard Against Growing Protectionism, Karl P. Sauvant
We Must Guard Against Growing Protectionism, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
No abstract provided.
Learning From The Crisis, Karl P. Sauvant
Learning From The Crisis, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Interview on “Learning from the Crisis” by the Brazilian magazine PiB: Brazilian Companies Go International, vol. 3, No. 7 (May-June 2009), pp. 22-25.
Yearbook On International Investment Law And Policy, 2008-2009, Edited By Karl P. Sauvant, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), Karl P. Sauvant
Yearbook On International Investment Law And Policy, 2008-2009, Edited By Karl P. Sauvant, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
No abstract provided.
Pondering Fdi In Crisis: Investment Could Drop Or It Just Might Rise, Karl P. Sauvant
Pondering Fdi In Crisis: Investment Could Drop Or It Just Might Rise, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, "Pondering FDI in crisis: investment could drop or it just might rise", op. ed., Shanghai Daily, 28 November 2008, p. A. 6.
Fair Contracts For Poor Countries, Karl P. Sauvant
Fair Contracts For Poor Countries, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, 《Fair contracts for poor countries》, op. ed. published by the Project Syndicate on 29 February 2008.
Appeals Mechanism In International Investment Disputes
Appeals Mechanism In International Investment Disputes
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant with Michael Chiswick-Patterson, eds., Appeals Mechanism in International Investment Disputes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
The Rise Of International Investment, Investment Agreements And Investment Disputes, Karl P. Sauvant
The Rise Of International Investment, Investment Agreements And Investment Disputes, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, “The Rise of International Investment, Investment Agreements and Investment Disputes,” in Karl P. Sauvant with Michael Chiswick-Patterson, eds., Appeals Mechanism in International Investment Disputes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 3-16.
World Investment Prospects To 2011: Foreign Direct Investment And The Challenge Of Political Risk
World Investment Prospects To 2011: Foreign Direct Investment And The Challenge Of Political Risk
Karl P. Sauvant
Laza Kekic and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., World Investment Prospects to 2011: Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Political Risk (London: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., 2007).
World Investment Prospects To 2010: Boom Or Backlash?, Edited By Laza Kekic And Karl P. Sauvant, (London: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., 2006), Karl P. Sauvant
World Investment Prospects To 2010: Boom Or Backlash?, Edited By Laza Kekic And Karl P. Sauvant, (London: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., 2006), Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
No abstract provided.
The Emergence Of An International Legal Framework For Transnational Corporations, Karl P. Sauvant
The Emergence Of An International Legal Framework For Transnational Corporations, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, “The Emergence of an International Legal Framework for Transnational Corporations,” in Benno Engels, ed., Investieren in der Dritten Welt: Unternehmerische und Politische Herausforderungen (Hamburg: Deutsches Uebersee-Institut, 1995), pp.124-144.