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Foreign direct investment and human development : the law and economics of international investment agreements /
This book presents original research that examines the growth of international investment agreements as a means to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and considers how this affects the ability of capital-importing countries to pursue their development goals. The hope of countries signing such t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- foreign direct investment and human development / Olivier De Schutter, Jo Swinnen and Jan Wouters
- International investment law
- the perpetual search for consensus / Jan Wouters, Nicolas Hachez and Sanderijn Duquet
- Foreign direct investment as an engine for economic growth and human development
- a review of the arguments and empirical evidence / Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen
- Determinants of foreign direct investment flows to developing countries
- the role of international investment agreements / Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen
- What type of foreign direct investment is attracted by bilateral investment treaties? / Liesbeth Colen and Andrea Guariso
- The capital-importing state
- improving the monitoring of international invesment agreements at the national level / Olivier De Schutter
- Risk managers or risk promoters
- the impacts of export credit and investment insurance agencies on human development and human rights / Matthias Sant'Ana
- Improving the framework of negotiations on international investment agreements / Philip De Man and Jan Wouters
- The role of development banks
- the European investment bank's substantive and procedural accountability principles with regard to human rights, social and environmental concerns / Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters.