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China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment And International Investment Law, Karl P. Sauvant, Michael D. Nolan
China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment And International Investment Law, Karl P. Sauvant, Michael D. Nolan
Karl P. Sauvant
As China’s outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown, its approach to international investment agreements (IIAs) has changed. China is now one of the world’s most important outward investors, with Chinese FDI facing widespread criticism. The challenge for China is to adapt to this new configuration of interests stemming from these developments, both in terms of its national policies and the contents of its IIAs. In so doing, it is likely to influence, perhaps significantly, the further evolution of international investment law. This article deals briefly with the salient features of China’s outward FDI and the policies that support it; …
Policy Options For Promoting Foreign Direct Investment In The Least Developed Countries, Karl P. Sauvant, Padma Mallampally
Policy Options For Promoting Foreign Direct Investment In The Least Developed Countries, Karl P. Sauvant, Padma Mallampally
Karl P. Sauvant
Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role in the world economy and has the potential to contribute toward accelerating the process of economic growth and sustainable development in the least developed countries (LDCs). This article provides a brief overview of recent trends and patterns in FDI flows to the LDCs, and then takes stock of the policies, programs and measures pursued by host and home countries and by international organizations to stimulate FDI flows to LDCs and increase the benefits for these countries. It then lays out a number of policy proposals on how flows to LDCs, and the …
An International Support Programme For Sustainable Investment Facilitation, Karl P. Sauvant, Khalil Hamdani
An International Support Programme For Sustainable Investment Facilitation, Karl P. Sauvant, Khalil Hamdani
Karl P. Sauvant
The world’s investment needs are huge. Just meeting the Sustainable Development Goals requires, annually, trillions of dollars. Massive private investment, including foreign direct investment (FDI), has to be mobilized for this purpose. However, especially the least developed countries simply lack the capacity to compete successfully in the highly competitive FDI world market to obtain the required funds. They need assistance – not only to obtain more FDI but sustainable FDI, to advance sustainable development. This paper raises the question of the need to define “sustainable FDI” and calls for an international support program for sustainable investment facilitation.
Attracting Foreign Direct Investment And Benefiting From It: Challenges For The Least Developed Countries, Karl P. Sauvant
Attracting Foreign Direct Investment And Benefiting From It: Challenges For The Least Developed Countries, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
The challenge to attract FDI to least developed countries (LDCs) is twofold: to help increase FDI flows to LDCs; and to increase the contribution that the FDI flows that LDCs receive make to the development of host economies. Economic determinants, an enabling regulatory framework and investment promotion are crucial elements for attracting FDI that will ultimately enhance the contribution of TNCs to the economic growth and development of LDCs.
The International Investment Law And Policy Regime: Challenges And Options, Karl P. Sauvant
The International Investment Law And Policy Regime: Challenges And Options, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
International investment—more specifically, foreign direct investment (FDI)—has become the most important vehicle to bring goods and services to foreign markets. In addition, FDI integrates the national production systems of individual countries and is in the process of creating an integrated international production system, the productive core of the globalising world economy. Against the background of the salient features of FDI and the emerging integrated international production system, this paper seeks to do three things—one, to discuss the evolution of national FDI policies; two, to review challenges for the international investment law and policy regime; and, three, to identify options on …
Attracting Fdi And Benefiting From It: Challenges For The Least Developed Countries, Karl P. Sauvant
Attracting Fdi And Benefiting From It: Challenges For The Least Developed Countries, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Spoke on “Attracting FDI and Benefiting From It: Challenges for the Least Developed Countries,” at an event on “Investment Promotion Regimes for Foreign Direct Investment in the Least Developed Countries,” held by the Second Committee of the UN's General Assembly, New York, 24 November 2014. The presentation was subsequently published in the Transnational Corporations Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (June 2015), pp. 125-127.
Trends In Fdi, Home Country Measures And Competitive Neutrality, Karl P. Sauvant, Persephone Economou, Ksenia Gal, Shawn Lim, Witold P. Wilinski
Trends In Fdi, Home Country Measures And Competitive Neutrality, Karl P. Sauvant, Persephone Economou, Ksenia Gal, Shawn Lim, Witold P. Wilinski
Karl P. Sauvant
This chapter focusses on measures that home countries have in place to facilitate and encourage outward FDI, the conditions under which these are available and implications for competitive neutrality.
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.
Challenges For China's Outward Fdi, Karl P. Sauvant
Challenges For China's Outward Fdi, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, "Challenges for China's Outward FDI,” op. ed., China Daily, 31 October 2013.
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.
Prospering In The United States, Karl P. Sauvant
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 …
Inward And Outward Fdi Country Profiles, Second Edition
Inward And Outward Fdi Country Profiles, Second Edition
Karl P. Sauvant
The key role MNEs play in the global economy through international investment, and the changing landscape of such investment as MNEs as well as host and home economies adjust to changing conditions and objectives, make it important to understand trends and developments with respect to FDI and the policy context in which they take place. This second edition of country profiles seeks to contribute to such an understanding by bringing together, in a single collection, the country profiles on inward and outward FDI prepared as part of the Columbia FDI Profiles series. Authored and peer-reviewed by scholars from around the …
Foreign Direct Investment By Emerging Economy Multinationals: Coping With The Global Crisis, Geraldine Mcallister, Karl P. Sauvant
Foreign Direct Investment By Emerging Economy Multinationals: Coping With The Global Crisis, Geraldine Mcallister, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Even before the onset of the global crisis, the global market for foreign direct investment (FDI) had undergone significant changes. Foremost amongst these changes was the increasing importance of emerging market1 multinationals (MNEs). While outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from these markets is, in itself, not new, the magnitude that this phenomenon achieved prior to the crisis and its resilience in the face of the global crisis suggest that this is not a temporary occurrence but rather a sign of a fundamental change that is taking place in the global OFDI market. However, emerging markets are not homogenous: in addition …
Fdi Perspectives: Issues In International Investment, 2nd Edition
Fdi Perspectives: Issues In International Investment, 2nd Edition
Karl P. Sauvant
This second edition of this publication provides an overview of important contemporary issues relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises for all those who are interested in this subject, but are not always in a position to follow diverse perspectives and what is being written in the various corners of this field. The contributions are grouped under the following headings: attracting FDI and its impact; the rise of emerging market investors; national policies; sustainable international investment; and international investment treaties and arbitration. The volume brings together all Perspectives published since the inception of this series until 2012.
Negotiations On The Bilateral Investment Treaty Between China And The Usa: Consensus, Controversies And Prospect (In Chinese), Karl P. Sauvant, Huiping Chen
Negotiations On The Bilateral Investment Treaty Between China And The Usa: Consensus, Controversies And Prospect (In Chinese), Karl P. Sauvant, Huiping Chen
Karl P. Sauvant
The negotiation on the bilateral investment treaty between China and the USA in October 2012. So far, the two parties have almost reached agreements on preamble, scope of investor, most-favored-nation treatment, fair and equitable treatment, indirect expropriation, and denial of benefits. The controversies between the two parties focus on national treatment, performance requirement, labor and environment standard, and some provisions on investor-state dispute settlement. Among them, the most disputed and difficult issue is national treatment. The authors suggest some constructive solutions to these controversial issues, and believe that the future concluded China-US BIT based on negotiations and compromise will play …
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.
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.
China: Inward And Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Karl P. Sauvant
China: Inward And Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, “Preface,” in Hugh Deng, Hang Wu, Gloria Yuan, and Jingfeng Zhao, eds., Transnational Corporations in China: Research and Development (Ottawa: Ottawa Learning Academy, The School of Economics and Management and Northwest University (China), 2010). The text was reprinted (slightly adapted), under the title “China: Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investment,” in Transnational Corporations Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (March 2011), pp. i-iii.
Transnational Corporations, Vol. 20, No. 1
Transnational Corporations, Vol. 20, No. 1
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant and Miles Killingsworth, Guest Editors, Transnational Corporations, vol. 20, no. 1 (April 2011).
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 …
Fdi Perspectives: Issues In International Investment
Fdi Perspectives: Issues In International Investment
Karl P. Sauvant
The 30 chapters in this volume, written by diverse experts on international investment, cover a wide range of issues in this field. Their purpose is to inform readers in a concise manner about some of the important issues and trends in the contemporary debate on FDI and to promote a wide-ranging discussion about the policy implications of major trends and events.
China, Inc. Goes Global, Karl P. Sauvant
Inward And Outward Fdi Country Profiles
Inward And Outward Fdi Country Profiles
Karl P. Sauvant
The key role MNEs play in the global economy through international investment, and the changing landscape of such investment as MNEs as well as host and home economies adjust to changing conditions and objectives, make it important to understand trends and developments with respect to FDI and the policy context in which they take place. This second edition of country profiles seeks to contribute to such an understanding by bringing together, in a single collection, the country profiles on inward and outward FDI prepared as part of the Columbia FDI Profiles series. Authored and peer-reviewed by scholars from around the …
Le Défi Chinois, Karl P. Sauvant, Ken Davies
Le Défi Chinois, Karl P. Sauvant, Ken Davies
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant and Ken Davies, “Le défi Chinois,” op. ed. published by Project Syndicate on 2 December 2010.
E Um Bom Momento Para Investir, Karl P. Sauvant
E Um Bom Momento Para Investir, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
Interview, “E um bom momento para investor,” by the Brazilian paper O Globo, 21 November 2010.
Investing In The United States: Is The Us Ready For Fdi From China?
Investing In The United States: Is The Us Ready For Fdi From China?
Karl P. Sauvant
This volume analyzes the regulatory and operational challenges that foreign direct investors face in the United States, as well as the ways in which these challenges can be overcome. Firms from emerging markets, particularly China, are increasingly investing in the US – the world’s most important and sophisticated national market. This book addresses why investors need to be familiar with the issues they are facing. The topics explored include the national and international regulatory framework governing FDI in the US which has changed considerably in light of recent laws and regulations; how to navigate the various groups that influence policies …
The Rise Of Indian Multinationals: Perspectives On Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment
The Rise Of Indian Multinationals: Perspectives On Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant and Jaya Prakash Pradhan, with Ayesha Chatterjee and Brian Harley, eds., The Rise of Indian Multinationals: Perspectives on Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Is The United States Ready For Fdi From China? Overview, Karl P. Sauvant
Is The United States Ready For Fdi From China? Overview, Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant
The United States has one of the most open investment frameworks in the world. However, developing an appropriate regulatory and political strategy is particularly important for Chinese MNEs entering the US through M&As as opposed to greenfield investments. As these MNEs navigate the US political landscape and face the liability of foreignness, they are also offered protection through a state-to-state dispute settlement mechanism and applicable international investment agreements (IIAs). Through a thorough understanding of the US’s regulatory framework, compliance training, integration in communities through linkages, working with local partners who understand US regulations, and attention to CSR, China’s firm can …
Foreign Direct Investment From Emerging Markets: The Challenges Ahead
Foreign Direct Investment From Emerging Markets: The Challenges Ahead
Karl P. Sauvant
Foreign direct investment from emerging markets is an increasingly important phenomenon; firms from developed countries alone no longer undertake this activity. This volume provides the latest scholarship on this subject from eminent contributors from around the world. This volume demonstrates the importance of rigorous analysis to understand the dilemmas, the controversies, the disputes, and the policy issues that need to be considered in connection with this new phenomenon. In the wake of the financial crisis, it is more critical than ever for those involved in FDI research and policy to understand these issues.