TY - BOOK AU - Schutter,Olivier de AU - Swinnen,Johan F.M. AU - Wouters,Jan ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Foreign direct investment and human development: the law and economics of international investment agreements AV - K3830 .F67 2013 U1 - 332.67/3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Investments, Foreign KW - Law and legislation KW - Law and economic development KW - Investments, Foreign (International law) KW - Economic aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction--foreign direct investment and human development / Olivier De Schutter, Jo Swinnen and Jan Wouters -- International investment law--the perpetual search for consensus / Jan Wouters, Nicolas Hachez and Sanderijn Duquet -- Foreign direct investment as an engine for economic growth and human development--a review of the arguments and empirical evidence / Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen -- Determinants of foreign direct investment flows to developing countries--the role of international investment agreements / Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen -- What type of foreign direct investment is attracted by bilateral investment treaties? / Liesbeth Colen and Andrea Guariso -- The capital-importing state--improving the monitoring of international invesment agreements at the national level / Olivier De Schutter -- Risk managers or risk promoters--the impacts of export credit and investment insurance agencies on human development and human rights / Matthias Sant'Ana -- Improving the framework of negotiations on international investment agreements / Philip De Man and Jan Wouters -- The role of development banks--the European investment bank's substantive and procedural accountability principles with regard to human rights, social and environmental concerns / Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1092625 ER -