the law and economics of international investment agreements /
edited by Olivier De Schutter, Johan F. Swinnen and Jan Wouters
New York, NY :
Routledge,
c2013
x, 347 p. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- foreign direct investment and human development / Olivier De Schutter, Jo Swinnen and Jan Wouters -- International investment law -- the perpetual search for consensus / Jan Wouters, Nicolas Hachez and Sanderijn Duquet -- Foreign direct investment as an engine for economic growth and human development -- a review of the arguments and empirical evidence / Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen -- Determinants of foreign direct investment flows to developing countries -- the role of international investment agreements / Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen -- What type of foreign direct investment is attracted by bilateral investment treaties? / Liesbeth Colen and Andrea Guariso -- The capital-importing state -- improving the monitoring of international invesment agreements at the national level / Olivier De Schutter -- Risk managers or risk promoters -- the impacts of export credit and investment insurance agencies on human development and human rights / Matthias Sant'Ana -- Improving the framework of negotiations on international investment agreements / Philip De Man and Jan Wouters -- The role of development banks -- the European investment bank's substantive and procedural accountability principles with regard to human rights, social and environmental concerns / Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters