Promoting and Managing International Investment: Towards an Integrated Policy Approach

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of acronyms Notes on contributors 1. Introduction to international investment policy and rationale for an interdisciplinary approach 1. Introduction 2. Economics 3. International business 4. Law 5. Political science 6. Moving beyond disciplinary silos PART I: International investment’s changing context 2. Trade and foreign direct investment in the 21st century 1. Introduction 2. National production paradigm 3. Globalization of production 4. Concluding remarks 3. Actors, institutions, and policy in host countries 1. Introduction 2. International law: the basics 3. Sources of international investment law 4. Domestic law of foreign direct investment 5. The relationship between international law and domestic law 6. The legitimacy of the sources of investment law 7. Final thoughts 4. State-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds: An economic assessment 1. Introduction 2. Overview of SWFs and SOEs 3. The influence of government ownership: theory 4. The influence of government ownership evidence 5. Summary and conclusions PART II: Promoting international investment 5. The economics of foreign direct investment and international investment agreements 1. Introduction 2. The new economics of multinational firms: global value chains, trade, and investment 3. Location promotion: the economics of FDI and international investment agreements 4. Do international investment agreements promote FDI in practice? 5. Conclusions 6. Attracting foreign direct investment: Location branding and marketing 1. Introduction 2. Foreign direct investment: background and location choice decision process 3. Investment promotion, place marketing, nation branding 4. Implications and discussion: location branding for foreign investment attraction 5. Conclusion 7. FDI policy advocacy and investor targeting 1. Introduction 2. The content of investment policy: context and benchmark strategies 3. Policy advocacy: mechanisms, screening, and facilitation, integration with trade 4. Investor targeting: staged approaches, priority sectors, and incentives 5. Future directions for investment promotion 6. Conclusion 8. Tax competition as an investment promotion tool 1. Introduction 2. Using tax to lure capital in a global economy 3. Declining to tax: a competitive or anti-competitive practice? 4. Tax as subsidy in the WTO 5 Conclusion PART III: Managing international investment 9. National security and the political economy of international investment policy 1. Introduction 2. The political economy of international investment policy 3. International investment policies and national security concerns 4. Conclusion 10. International investment agreements 1. Introduction 2. The twofold objective of international investment agreements 3. The scope of protection of international investment agreements 4. Substantive elements: the traditional standards of investor protection 5. New IIA issues and developments: recalibrating the balance between investor protection and host states’ right to regulate 6. Conclusion 11. Investor–state dispute settlement 1. Introduction 2. Context 3. Basic features of ISDS 4. Current issues dealing with ISDS clauses – systemic challenges and proposed solutions 5. Paths to reform 6. Conclusions and policy implications Acknowledgement 12. Social and environmental issues in foreign direct investment: A legal and policy perspective 1. Introduction 2. Quality investment: key concepts and instruments 3. Selected themes 4. Conclusion PART IV: Conclusion 13. Moving beyond disciplinary silos: Towards an integrated approach to international investment policy 1. Introduction 2. The need for firm-specific approaches to understanding international investment 3. The need for country-specific international investment policy 4. Investment and other economic activity by foreign investors 5. Investment, non-economic impacts, and the policy process 6. Conclusions Index