Protecting Foreign Investment: Implications of a WTO Regime and Policy OptionsZed Books, 2003 - 177 pages Despite the mounting criticism that globalization is encountering, the developed countries continue to lose no opportunity to change the rules of the global economy in their favour, regardless of the impact on developing countries and the poor. This book examines one of the most important instances of this: the rich countries' insistence that the WTO not only launch a new round of world trade negotiations, but that rules which were supposed to be confined to trade issues now be extended by means of new agreements protecting foreign direct investment. What is being proposed would be at the expense of the freedom of developing countries to determine their own policies towards foreign capital in tune with their development policy objectives. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Foreign direct investment host government policy | 7 |
empirical | 14 |
improvements 17 Effect of FDI on host country | 20 |
a historical | 29 |
Appendices | 44 |
Multilaterally agreed equitable principles and rules | 51 |
Part two The Agreement on TradeRelated Investment Measures | 67 |
Implications of the TRIMs agreement for developing | 82 |
Attempts to evolve a Multilateral Treaty | 109 |
options | 141 |
Incorporating a development dimension in a possible MFI | 144 |
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