1. Perspectives ebook

Karl P. Sauvant, Lisa Sachs, Ken Davies, and Ruben Zandvliet have edited an ebook, FDI Perspectives: Issues in International Investment (ISSN 2159-2217), published on the website of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (www.vcc.columbia.edu) and available free of charge from there. The book consists of a collection of short essays on important and topical foreign direct investment (FDI) issues related to attracting FDI and its impact; the rise of emerging market investors; national policies; and international investment treaties and arbitration. The perspectives capture a dynamic period in the global debate on international investment and reflect many hot topics and issues of continuing relevance. Topics range from the implications of the financial crisis and recession for major economies, to the changing geography of the international investment regime and policy questions faced by emerging markets; from the implications of sovereign investment for national security and measures taken to restrict such investment, to policy options for countries seeking to increase inward investment flows and trying to stay competitive in a downward market; from investment in land and agriculture, to investment in extractive industries – raising important questions both for national policy and for the international investment regime.  The range of topics reflects the multifaceted, interdisciplinary and rapidly evolving nature of key issues in international investment.

2. Profiles ebook

Karl P. Sauvant, Thomas Jost, Ken Davies, and Ana-Maria Poveda Garces have edited an ebook volume,  Inward and Outward FDI Country Profiles ( ISSN 2159-2268), published on the website of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (www.vcc.columbia.edu) and available free of charge from there. International investment has become an increasingly important feature of the globalized economy in the past 20 years, having grown much faster than world GDP. The profiles highlight, in standardized format, current developments in FDI inflows and outflows at the country level and the policy context in which they take place.  The volume includes inward FDI profiles of Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, and Ukraine. It also contains outward FDI profiles of Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United States.

3. EMGP ebook

Karl P. Sauvant, Vishwas Govitrikar and Ken Davies have edited an ebook volume, MNEs from Emerging Markets: New Players in the World FDI Market (ISSN 2159-2209), published on the website of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (www.vcc.columbia.edu) and available free of charge from there. The rise of foreign direct investment (FDI) from emerging markets has become a renewed focus of attention since the turn of the century. Over the past few years, firms from these markets have become major investors abroad, complementing their home countries‘ traditional role as recipients of FDI. Yet the investing enterprises are typically less well known than their counterparts in the developed world, and little has been done to chart their progress systematically. If this phenomenon is to be understood and its implications for public policy and corporate strategy grasped, the first need is for reliable and comparable data on the activities of emerging market MNEs. The 11 chapters in this volume contain reports for the  11 countries covered so far: Argentina, Brazil, China, Hungary, India, Israel, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, and Turkey. These reports altogether identify some 212 emerging market MNEs.