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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 …