Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development

The Law and Economics of International Investment Agreements
Herausgeber: De Schutter, Olivier; Wouters, Jan; Swinnen, Johan

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Produktbeschreibung

The relationship between FDI in developing countries and the progress of these countries towards human development has been a subject of controversy for decades in the development community. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective combining insights from international investment law, human rights law and economics, this book offers an original contribution to the debate. Through the use of original empirical data the book demonstrates the impact of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties on the flows of FDI, and the impacts of FDI on economic growth and on human development. It explores how improvements to the legal framework of FDI and to the way investment agreements are negotiated can maximize the contribution of FDI to human development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415535489
• ISBN-10: 0415535484
• Artikelnr.: 35451217

Autorenporträt

Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food since May 2008. He is a Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the College of Europe (Natolin). He is also a Member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University and is Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Johan F. Swinnen is Director of LICOS-Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven, Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, and Visiting Professor in Stanford University. Previously, he was Lead Economist at the World Bank and Economic Advisor to the European Commission. Jan Wouters holds the Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam on EU and Global Governance at the KU Leuven, where he is Professor of International Law and International Organizations. He is the Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies　- Institute for International Law, University of Leuven, and chair of the Flemish Foreign Affairs Council.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction : Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development, Olivier
De Schutter, Jo Swinnen and Jan Wouters Part 1: The Development of
International Investment Law in Historical Perspective 2. International
Investment Law: the Perpetual Search for Consensus, Jan Wouters, Nicolas
Hachez and Sanderijn Duquet Part 2: Economic consequences of Foreign Direct
Investment 3. 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 4. Determinants of Foreign
Direct Investment Flows to Developing Countries: the Role of International
Investment Agreements, Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen 5. What
Type of Foreign Direct Investment is Attracted by Bilateral Investment
Treaties?, Liesbeth Colen and Andrea Guariso Part 3: Rethinking the Current
Legal Framework: a Multi-Level Analysis 6. The capital-importing State :
Improving the Monitoring of International Invesment Agreements at the
National Level, Olivier De Schutter 7. Risk managers or Risk Promoters? The
Impacts of Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agencies on Human
Development and Human Rights, Matthias Sant'Ana 8. Improving the Framework
of Negotiations on International Investment Agreements, Philip De Man and
Jan Wouters 9. 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