Investment: publications

	Investment bibliography Including articles, briefings and official documents
	Investment publications This page lists the background materials used to develop the international workshop on investment to be held in September 2004. Although this workshop is closed, the publications listed below will be of interest to many of those involved in these issues.	Articles Briefings EU documents EU Forest Watch NGO statements Press releases Reports Archive Publications by subject Investment news Publications On investment About investment Investment bibliography On Export Credit Agencies About Export Credit Agencies Joining forces to reform ECAs Cleaning up ECAs in Europe OECD: ECAs fail to reform themselves ECA Factfile Home
January 2005	Questioning Globalization Announcement of Kavaljit Singh's forthcoming book looking at global investment rules. OPEN (72 KB)
September 2004	Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? Political organising behind TRIPS. A new publication on trade and intellectual property rights from The Corner House. OPEN (PDF 168KB)
August 2004	Bilateral Investment Agreements: agents of new global standards for the protection of intellectual property rights? In this independent study, commissioned by GRAIN, Carlos M Correa explores the implications of bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements. OPEN (PDF 296KB)
July 2004	Equitable Equity: India introduces Securities Transaction Tax (STT) Kavaljit Singh discusses the implications of introducing STT into Indian financial markets. OPEN (PDF 22KB)
March 2004	Axis of Ideology: conservative foundations and public policy An executive summary of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy report which examines changes in conservative philanthropy since the Committee's 1997 report Moving a Public Policy Agenda . OPEN (PDF 204KB)
March 2004	Battle of the Manifestos Simon Fairlie and Jyoti Fernandes discuss globalisation and localisation in their critique of George Montbiot's The Age of Consent. Includes a reply from Montbiot. OPEN (PDF 188KB)
February 2004	UK Bilateral Investment Treaty Programme and Sustainable Development. Briefing Paper no. 10, Royal Institute for International Affairs As the likelihood of multinational investment negotiations recedes, Luke Eric Peterson focuses on the UK's extensive and growing catalogue of bilateral agreements. OPEN (PDF 547KB)
January 2004	NAFTA, Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Industrial Development in Mexico In this IRC report, Lyuba Zarsky and Kevin Gallagher discuss the effects of NAFTA on Mexico's long-term prospects for sustainable industrial development. OPEN (PDF 73KB)
2004	Parmalat's Fall: Europe's Enron? Kavaljit Singh discusses the collapse of Italian food and dairy giant, Parmalat. OPEN (PDF 11KB)
2004	Investment and Sustainable Development: a guide to the use and potential of International Investment Agreements In this IISD report to the CS Mott Foundation, Aaron Cosbey et al examine the role played by international investment agreements in fostering sustainable development and discuss the difficulties in achieving the balance between the rights of foreign investors and those of a state's public. OPEN (PDF 1.35MB)
July 2003	Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: human rights, trade and investment Report produced by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights OPEN (PDF 172KB)
July 2003	Brief summaries - including key extracts - from the UNCHR report on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Human rights, trade and investment See above for the full report. OPEN (PDF 92KB)
June 2003	The Privatisation of Justice: international commercial arbitration and the redefinition of the state Susan Leubuscher's MRes thesis discusses the political power of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in relation to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). OPEN (PDF 174KB)
April 2003	International Human Rights in Bilateral Investment Treaties and in Investment Treaty Arbitration In this IISD report, commissioned by the Swiss Department for Foreign Affairs, Luke Eric Peterson discusses the recent increase in investor-state disputes, the use of BITs to challenge host states' obligations to foreign investors and the limitations of BITs in relation to the responsibilities of investors. OPEN (PDF 289KB)
March 2003	Searching for the Holy Grail? Making FDI work for sustainable development Commissioned by WWF and written by Lyuba Zarsky and Kevin Gallagher of the Global Development and Environment Institute. OPEN (PDF 148KB)
2003	Multilateral Investment Agreement in the WTO: issues and illusions Kavaljit Singh discusses the issue of investment as one of the most contentious in the run up to the 5th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Cancun. OPEN (PDF 79KB)
February 2002	Fallacies about the theory of FDIs: its ideological and methodological pitfalls Yash Tandon, Director of Zimbabwe's SEATINI, exposes the fallacy behind FDIs in this paper which was presented to the 4th Conference of International Economists in Havana, Cuba. OPEN (PDF 213KB)
June 2000	Drowning By Numbers A Bretton Woods Project report on the IMF and World Bank. The Executive Summary is available at: http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/article.shtml?cmd[126]=x-126-15844
undated	Trading Away Capital Controls Kavaljit Singh examines the implications of the US move to curb the use of capital controls in its bilateral trade deals with Chile and Singapore. OPEN (PDF 85KB)
undated	International Standards, the WTO and Protection (?) of the Environment Susan Leubuscher explores whether international standards can serve the wider public interest and looks at the role of the WTO in legitimising such standards. OPEN (PDF 153KB)