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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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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).
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.
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.
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).
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 …
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.
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.
Mnes From Emerging Markets: New Players In The World Fdi Market
Mnes From Emerging Markets: New Players In The World Fdi Market
Karl P. Sauvant
Karl P. Sauvant, Vishwas P. Govitrikar and Ken Davies, eds., MNEs from Emerging Markets: New Players in the World FDI Market (New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2011), e-book, with a Preface by the editors.
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.