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“International Investment Facilitation: By Whom and for What?” Presentation to the ICTSD/IDB Roundtable on “Trade Facilitation 2.0 in Regional Trade Agreements: Enabling Trade in the Digital Age”
Presentation to the ICTSD/IDB Roundtable (2018)
  • Karl P. Sauvant
Abstract
This speech begins with a very brief discussion of the inter-relationship between trade and FDI and the beginning discussions of investment facilitation in the WTO, before focusing on two questions concerning the scope of a possible Investment Facilitation Agreement, namely investment facilitation by whom and investment facilitation for what.
Keywords
  • Investment Facilitation,
  • Sustainable FDI,
  • Sustainable Development,
  • Home Country Measures
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 12, 2018
Location
Geneva
Citation Information
Karl P. Sauvant, “International Investment Facilitation: By Whom and for What?” Presentation to the ICTSD/IDB Roundtable on “Trade Facilitation 2.0 in Regional Trade Agreements: Enabling Trade in the Digital Age”, Geneva, 11-12 June 2018.