Foreign direct investment and human development : the law and economics of international investment agreements / / edited by Olivier De Schutter, Johan Swinnen and Jan Wouters.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 347 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.