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The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework: Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives

The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework: Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives

Author: Axe Berger; Manjiao Chi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009444088
Published In: March 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a multidisciplinary, transregional and data-driven approach to explore the political, economic and legal aspects pertaining to the most recent WTO agreement. The book highlights how this agreement broadens the scope of the WTO to the contentious area of foreign investment and adopts the innovative facilitation approach.

The book presents cutting-edge research on the (non-)adoption of investment facilitation worldwide, the economic impact of the agreement, its legal implications and the political economy explaining why the investment facilitation for development agreement came about. The book brings together leading experts from various disciplines and practices and aims at inspiring more substantive research in this new field of international economic rule-making.

Introduction: law, politics and economics of international disciplines on investment facilitation for development

Axel Berger and Manjiao Chi

Part I. Investment Facilitation Rules in International and Domestic Law

1. Domestic investment facilitation frameworks: measuring their extent and variation

Axel Berger, Florian Gitt and Ali Dadkhah

2. Investment facilitation provisions in international investment agreements and the multilateral framework on investment facilitation for development

Rodrigo Polanco

3. Relationship between the investment facilitation for development and other WTO agreements - potential overlaps and complementarities in the non-service sector

Yuka Fukunaga

4. Investment facilitation and dispute settlement: a structural analysis

Manjiao Chi

Part II. Political Economy Perspectives of Investment Facilitation Rule-Making

5. Economic impacts of an investment facilitation for development agreement

Edward J. Balistreri and Zoryana Olekseyuk

6. The political economy of an investment facilitation for development agreement in Brazil, India and China

Julia Calvert

7. Facilitation of Foreign direct investment through International economic law - contribution to the right to development and SDGs

Ole Kristian Fauchald

8. Plurilateral negotiations in the WTO on services domestic regulation and investment facilitation for development

Christian Pitschas