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The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

Edited by
Axel Berger  and
Manjiao Chi
Axel Berger
Affiliation:
German Institute of Development and Sustainability
Manjiao Chi
Affiliation:
University of International Business and Economics
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The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework
Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework

This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first international 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 investment facilitation for development agreement. The book highlights how this agreement broadens the scope of the WTO to the 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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Axel Berger is Deputy Director (interim) at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Managing Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Germany. He works on the design, effects, and diffusion patterns of international trade and investment agreements. Other areas of current research include the development effects of an international investment facilitation framework in the WTO and the role of the G7 and G20 in global governance.

Manjiao Chi is Full Professor at Law School, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing. He teaches and publishes extensively in international economic governance, dispute settlement, and sustainable development. He frequently consults governments, international organizations, and private parties on cutting-edge international economic law issues and holds or held visiting positions in leading law schools across the world.

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