Foreign direct investment and human development
Subtitle: the law and economics of international investment agreements
By: edited by Olivier De Schutter, Johan F. Swinnen and Jan Wouters
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780415535472; 9780415535489; 9780203076880
Subjects: Law and economic development; Law and legislation; Economic aspects; Foreign Investments; Investments, Foreign (International law)
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: foreign direct investment and human development / Olivier De Schutter, Jo Swinnen and Jan Wouters; title: International investment law; title: the perpetual search for consensus / Jan Wouters, Nicolas Hachez and Sanderijn Duquet; title: Foreign direct investment as an engine for economic growth and human development; title: a review of the arguments and empirical evidence / Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen; title: Determinants of foreign direct investment flows to developing countries; title: the role of international investment agreements / Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen; title: What type of foreign direct investment is attracted by bilateral investment treaties? / Liesbeth Colen and Andrea Guariso; title: The capital-importing state; title: improving the monitoring of international invesment agreements at the national level / Olivier De Schutter; title: Risk managers or risk promoters; title: the impacts of export credit and investment insurance agencies on human development and human rights / Matthias Sant'Ana; title: Improving the framework of negotiations on international investment agreements / Philip De Man and Jan Wouters; title: The role of development banks; title: the European investment bank's substantive and procedural accountability principles with regard to human rights, social and environmental concerns / Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters.