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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

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 …

We Need An International Support Programme For Sustainable Investment Facilitation (我们需要为可持续投资便利化建立一项国际援助计划 ), Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

China Needs To Complement Its “Going-Out” Policy With A “Going-In” Strategy (中国需要“走进去”战略补充其“走出去”政策), Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Z. Chen

Karl P. Sauvant

China's Regulatory Framework For Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Zitian Chen

Karl P. Sauvant

Foreword: Yearbook On International Investment Law & Policy 2012-2013, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

The author introduces the 2012-2013 Investment Yearbook, discussing the evolution of the international investment law and policy regime and investor-state-dispute-settlement. He highlights the new reality of a growing number of emerging markets becoming outward investors, leading to a fundamental shift in the interest situation of a growing number of countries regarding the investment regime.

Biography Of Karl P. Sauvant, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

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China Needs ‘Going-In’ Rules For Fdi Goodwill, Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Zitian Chen

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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.

Three Challenges For China’S Outward Fdi Policy (中国对外直接投资政策的三大挑战), Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

The Need For An International Investment Consensus-Building Process (达成国际投资共识的必要性), Karl P. Sauvant, Federico Ortino

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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

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

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 …

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

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 …

Investment To The Fore In Eu-Us Partnership, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

A China – Us Bilateral Investment Treaty: A Template For A Multilateral Framework For Investment? (中美双边投资协定：多边投资框架的范本？), Karl P. Sauvant, Huiping Chen

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Equal Treatment For Outward Investors, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, "Equal Treatment for Outward Investors,” Project Syndicate, 12 June 2012.

The Times They Are A-Changin’ -- Again -- In The Relationships Between Governments And Multinational Enterprises: From Control, To Liberalization To Rebalancing (政府与跨国公司关系的变化：从控制、自由化到再平衡), Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

State-Controlled Entities Control Nearly Us$ 2 Trillion In Foreign Assets (国家控制的实体控制近 2 万亿美元的外国资产), Karl P. Sauvant, Jonathan Strauss

Karl P. Sauvant

The Unbalanced Dragon: China’S Uneven Provincial And Regional Fdi Performance (不平衡的巨龙:中国不均衡的省市及地区 Fdi 业绩), Karl P. Sauvant, Chen Zhao, Xiaoying Huo

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