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There is extensive literature on measures pertaining to attracting inward FDI. On the other hand, there is much less information on measures supporting outward FDI. Yet the question of supporting outward FDI is the new frontier of national FDI policy making. A telling example of this new trend is the fact that the question of home countries supporting their state-owned enterprises investing abroad is one of the issues being addressed in the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. If you are interested in this subject and related questions, you may wish to look at:

Karl P. Sauvant, Persephone Economou, Ksenia Gal, Shawn Lim, and Witold P. Wilinski, “Trends in FDI, home country measures and competitive neutrality”, in Andrea K. Bjorklund, ed., Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2012-2013 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), ch. 1.

All developed countries have measures in place (“home country measures”) to support their firms investing abroad. These include informational, financial and fiscal home country measures, as well as bilateral investment and tax treaties. A number of institutions administer these measures. In contrast, only a few developing countries have put home country measures in place (exemplified by China’s “going-out” strategy).

This article reviews the following issues:

• What are the different types of measures that home countries use to support outward FDI, and under what conditions?
• Does the support that home country governments give to their firms investing abroad distort competitive neutrality among outward investors from different countries? This issue is currently being considered in reference to state-owned enterprises in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.
• Should developing countries put home country measures in place, to protect the competitive position of their own outward investors?

The article is available at http://works.bepress.com/karl_sauvant/. The text can also be found on the website of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment at: http://ccsi.columbia.edu/files/2014/03/Yb-12-13-ch.-1-8-Nov-13-stand-alone-final-for-website.pdf

关于外国直接投资（inward FDI）， 即他国对母国直接投资措施的文献有很多。相对而言，关于对外直接投资（outward FDI），即母国对外国直接投资的扶持措施信息却很少。 但是支持对外直接投资已然成为国家投资政策制定的前沿领域。例如，母国支持其国有企业到海外投资的问题已被列入“跨太平洋伙伴关系协议”（Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement）的磋商中。 如您对此问题感兴趣或者有什么疑问，请您搜索以下文献：

Karl P. Sauvant, Persephone Economou, Ksenia Gal, Shawn Lim, and Witold P. Wilinski, “Trends in FDI, home country measures and competitive neutrality”, in Andrea K. Bjorklund, ed., Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2012-2013 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), ch. 1.

卡尔 P. 索望等，“外国直接投资趋势，母国措施和竞争中立”，Andrea K. Bjorklund 编辑，国际投资法及政策年报2012-2013（纽约：牛津大学出版社，2014），第一章。

所有发达国家都已经实施了相应的母国措施来支持本国企业向海外投资。这些措施其中涉及信息情报，金融以及财政等多个领域，同样包括双边投资与税收条款。并由多个机构体系来管理这些措施。与此相反，仅有少数发展中国家实施了相应的母国措施（如中国的“走出去”战略）。

本文综述了以下问题：

• 这些母国用于支持本国企业对外投资的措施都有哪些类型，并适用于什么情况？
• 来自母国政府的支持会不会扰乱竞争中立，从而妨害他国投资者的利益？关于这一问题，在跨太平洋伙伴关系协议的磋商中主要考虑国有企业造成的影响。
• 发展中国家应该实施母国措施来保障本国投资者在海外投资的竞争力吗？

本文的链接  http://works.bepress.com/karl_sauvant/.

同样可以在哥伦比亚大学可持续投资中心找到本文：

http://ccsi.columbia.edu/files/2014/03/Yb-12-13-ch.-1-8-Nov-13-stand-alone-final-for-website.pdf

* Formerly the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable international Investment.

For Karl P. Sauvant and Federico Ortino, Improving the International Investment Law and Policy Regime: Options for the Future, and Karl P. Sauvant and Victor Zitian Chen, "China's regulatory framework for outward foreign direct investment," China Economic Journal, vol. 7 (2014), pp. 141-163, see the Center's website.