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G7 Move For Fair And Stable Contracts Can Be A Boon To Developing Economies, Karl P. Sauvant Jul 2014

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 Jan 2013

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.


Prospering In The United States, Karl P. Sauvant Jan 2013

Prospering In The United States, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Japan’s previous experience as new kids on the (FDI) block in the US can help guide China’s rise to success in that market. Thoughtful navigation of stakeholder management, political processes, and institutional systems can help avoid negative publicity. By approaching slowly though greenfield investments in place of M&As and assembly facilities as a stepping stone to full local production and attention to corporate social responsibility (CSR), China can focus efforts on local integration and the creation of linkages without damaging their brand. These strategies will help form strong networks through which China can build its brand and become insiders in …


Improving The International Investment Law And Policy Regime: Options For The Future Jan 2013

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 Jan 2012

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 Jan 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).


New Kid On The Block Learning The Rules, Karl P. Sauvant Jan 2012

New Kid On The Block Learning The Rules, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

As the new kids on the block, Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs), the fourth largest outward investors, face a wide variety of challenges, such as building integrated international production networks, accessing international markets through mergers and acquisitions and learning to be good corporate citizens in their host countries. As Chinese firms become regular players in the global FDI market, they will continue to improve their corporate competitiveness and contribute to the development of host countries.


You Don’T Have To Be Big To Be A Multinational, Karl P. Sauvant Aug 2011

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 May 2011

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 May 2011

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 Jan 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 Jan 2011

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 Jan 2011

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 Jan 2011

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.


We Must Guard Against Growing Protectionism, Karl P. Sauvant Aug 2009

We Must Guard Against Growing Protectionism, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

No abstract provided.


Learning From The Crisis, Karl P. Sauvant May 2009

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 Jan 2009

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 Nov 2008

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 Feb 2008

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 Jan 2008

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 Jan 2008

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 Jan 2007

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 Jan 2006

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.