The Challenge: How Can Foreign Direct Investment Fulfil Its Development Potential?

Sauvant, Karl P.

The Challenge: How Can Foreign Direct Investment Fulfil Its Development Potential?

OECD, Development Co-operation Report 2016: The Sustainable Development Goals as Business Opportunities (Paris: OECD, 2016), pp. 50-51. Reprinted in OECD Insights, 22 July 2016.

9 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2016 Last revised: 10 Jul 2019

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Karl P. Sauvant

Columbia University - Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Date Written: 2016

Abstract

This brief "Challenger Statement," prepared for the 2016 OECD Development Report, lays out three challenges foreign direct investment policy maker need to address: increasing foreign direct investment flows, gearing these flows toward sustainable development and reforming the international investment law and policy regime.

Note: A revised version was published under the title “How Can Foreign Direct Investment Fulfil Its Development Potential in Least Developed Countries?” Trade for Development News, 27 June 2019. It is attached at the end of the brief.

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Sauvant, Karl P., The Challenge: How Can Foreign Direct Investment Fulfil Its Development Potential? (2016). OECD, Development Co-operation Report 2016: The Sustainable Development Goals as Business Opportunities (Paris: OECD, 2016), pp. 50-51. Reprinted in OECD Insights, 22 July 2016., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2814143