Dear Colleague,
You may be interested in this two-page Columbia FDI Perspective entitled: “The WTO Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement needs a strong provision on responsible business conduct”. The text is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4158425.
We argue that a WTO Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement needs a strong responsible business conduct provision, as such a provision helps to increase the contribution that FDI can make to sustainable development. We suggest key elements of such a provision.
Best regards,
Karl P. Sauvant
| Karl P. Sauvant, PhD Resident Senior Fellow Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment 435 West 116th St., Rm. JGH 825, New York, NY 10027 | p: (212) 854 0689 | cell: (646) 724 5600 e: [log in to unmask] | w: www.ccsi.columbia.edu | t: @CCSI_Columbia |
"The WTO Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement Needs a Strong Provision on Responsible Business Conduct", Investment Facilitation for Development: A Toolkit for Policy Makers. Second Edition, "Agenda for Practice-oriented Research", "WTO Processes Would Benefit from the Input of Civil Society", "How Would a Future WTO Agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development Encourage Sustainable FDI Flows, and How Could it be Further Strengthened?”, "What Foreign Investors Want: Findings from an Investor Survey", "Incentivising Sustainable FDI", "Green FDI: Encouraging Carbon-neutral Investment", "Extending International Legal Aid from Trade to Investment: An Advisory Centre on International Investment Law", "More Attention to Policies! Improving the Distribution of FDI Benefits", "Facilitating Sustainable FDI in a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework: Four Concrete Proposals", "An Inventory of Concrete Measures to Facilitate the Flow of Sustainable FDI: What? Why? How?", are available at https://ssrn.com/author=2461782 .