Asia's Changing International Investment Regime

Asia's Changing International Investment Regime
Author: Julien Chaisse
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9811058822

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This book focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, delineating the evolving dynamics of foreign investment in the region. It examines the relationship between efforts to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) and efforts to improve governance and inclusive growth and development. Against a background of rapidly developing international investment law, it emphasises the need to strike a balance between these domestic and international legal frameworks, seeking to promote both foreign investment and the laws and policies necessary to regulate investments and investor conduct. Foreign investments play a pivotal role in most countries’ political economies, and in order to encourage cross-border capital flows, countries have taken various steps, such as revising their domestic legal frameworks, liberalising rules on inward and outward investment, and creating special regimes that provide incentives and protections for foreign investment. Alongside the developments in domestic laws, countries have also taken bilateral and multilateral action, including entering into trade and/or investment agreements. Further, the book explores regional investment trends, highlights specific features of Asia-Pacific investment laws and treaties, and analyses policy implications. It addresses four overarching themes: the trends (how Asia-Pacific’s agreements compare with recent global trends in the evolving rules on foreign investment); what China is doing; current investment arbitration practice in Asia; and the importance of regionalising investment law in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, it identifies and discusses the research and policy gaps that should be filled in order to promote more sustainable and responsible investment. The book offers a valuable resource not only for academics and students, but also for trade and investment officials, policy-makers, diplomats, economists, lawyers, think tanks, and business leaders interested in the governance and regulation of foreign investment, economic policy reforms, and the development of new types of investment agreements.

Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Asia

Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Asia
Author: Douglas H. Brooks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign trade regulation
ISBN:

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have increased dramatically in recent decades. As developing countries, particularly in Asia, remove restrictions and implement policies to attract FDI inflows, trade and investment have become increasingly intertwined. As such, there have been growing calls for a multilateral framework of foreign investment rules to be negotiated under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper reviews recent developments in FDI flows and their impacts in developing Asia, and the importance of the policy context in which those flows occur. It discusses advantages and disadvantages of including FDI in WTO negotiations, and related policy options for developing Asian economies.

Foreign Direct Investment in Pakistan

Foreign Direct Investment in Pakistan
Author: Ashfaque H. Khan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1999
Genre: Investments, Foreign
ISBN:

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Given its fragile balance of payments position and urgent need to boost industrial production, Pakistan needs to significantly increase its mobilization of foreign resources. It is crucial to accord high priority to foreign direct investment (FDI). Sections of this report include: importance of FDI in Pakistan; review of FDI policy; trends, issues, FDI, and economic impact of FDI; concentrated FDI in the power sector and its balance of payments implications; and conclusions, lessons, and policy challenges. Charts and tables.

Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region

Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region
Author: Henri Claude de Bettignies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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This book examines key issues in trade and investment patterns in the Asia-Pacific region, with a particular focus on Japan and its evolving role. Presenting the latest thinking, this volume will stimulate further debate in this important area.

Direct Foreign Investment In Asia's Developing Economies And Structural Change In The Asia-pacific Region

Direct Foreign Investment In Asia's Developing Economies And Structural Change In The Asia-pacific Region
Author: Eric D Ramstetter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429710380

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This book aims to produce a monograph evaluating the extent to which direct foreign investment in developing countries is related to structural change in the Asia-Pacific region. It is useful for economists, public policymakers, graduates or undergraduates.

Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfers

Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfers
Author: Nagesh Kumar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134655037

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In this book, Nagesh Kumar and expert contributors examine and explain the emerging patterns in international technology transfers and foreign direct investment flows (FDIs) over the past two decades. They analyse the trends in internationalization of corporate activity in individual source countries, discussing outflows from both major and emerging source countries. This departs from the existing treatments of FDI as homogenous resource and allows for a more detailed prediction of future outflow patterns. Throughout, the research focuses upon the implications of new trends for developing countries. Kumar concludes by outlining the policy implications for the governments of such countries seeking to mobilize technology and FDI for their industrialization and further integration into the international community. Controversially, he cautions against excessive optimism about the potential of FDI inflows as an agent of development. This book draws together much data and information which is not readily available and provides reflections upon international business negotiations from a developing country's perspective.