Articles

Lisa Sachs, "Great Debate: Mining in Latin America," The Morningside Post, April 25, 2013.

Perrine Toledano, "A Prickly Partnership Takes Root," Africa Investor, January-February 2013.

Lisa Sachs, "Ask the Experts: Mining," Americas Quarterly, January 2013.

Karl P. Sauvant and Geraldine McAllister, “Foreign Direct Investment by Emerging Economy Multinationals: Coping with the Global Crisis,” in Marin A. Marinov and Svetla T. Marinova, eds., Emerging Economies and Firms in the Global Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 14-46.

Karl P. Sauvant, "Foreword," in Marin A. Marinov and Svetla T. Marinova, eds., Impacts of Emerging Economies and Firms on International Business (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xii-xiv.

Lise Johnson, Shawn Pelsinger and Sritha Reddy, "Intra-African Investment - A Pressing Issue," Africa Investor, November-December 2012.

Lise Johnson, "The 2012 US Model BIT and What the Changes (or Lack Thereof) Suggest About Future Investment Treaties," Political Risk Insurance Newsletter, November 2012

Lise Johnson, “Inching Towards Consensus: An Update on the UNCITRAL Transparency Negotiations,” Investment Treaty News, IISD, October 30, 2012

Lisa Sachs, Jacky Mandelbaum and Perrine Toledano, "Devil in the Bidding Detail," op. ed., The Indian Express, September 28, 2012.

Karl P. Sauvant, "Equal Treatment for Outward Investors," op. ed., Project Syndicate, June 13, 2012.

Shefa Siegel, "Slouching toward Rio," op. ed., Haaretz, June 8, 2012.

Lisa Sachs and Shefa Siegel, "Openness in Extraction," op. ed., Project Syndicate, June 1, 2012.

Lise Johnson, "Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Through Insurance for Overseas Investments: The example of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation," IISD, May 2012.

Karl P. Sauvant, "New kid on the block learning the rules," East Asia Forum Quarterly, April-June 2012.

Karl P. Sauvant, “Foreword,” in Andrei Panibratov, Russian Multinationals: From Regional Supremacy to Global Lead (London: Routledge, 2012).

Shefa Siegel, "The Source of All Avarice," review of Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World’s Deadliest Place, Haaretz, December 2011.

Karl P. Sauvant, "China, Inc. goes global," op. ed., Project Syndicate, November 30, 2011. This op. ed. was also published in The Korea Times (South Korea), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Khaleej Times (UAE), Lianhe Zaobao (Singapore), The Straits Times (Singapore), La Vanguardia (Spain), Jordan Times (Jordan), Bangkok Post (Thailand), China National News (China), Columbia Business School-Chazen Global Insights (USA), Caijing Magazine (China), Politiken (Denmark), Business Intelligence (Macau), Taipei Times (Taiwan), The Georgian Times (Georgia), Wyborcza (Poland), Al Watan Daily (Kuwait), Times of Oman (Oman), Al Arab (Qatar), Les Echos (Mali/France).

Karl P. Sauvant, "Is the United States ready for FDI from China?," article in a China Daily insert in The New York Times, November 10, 2011. (Also published in a China Daily insert in The Wall Street Journal and the China Daily Special WTO Anniversary Edition).

Karl P. Sauvant, “Foreign direct investment for development: the United Nations Code of Conduct and the search for balance in international investment rules”, in Todd J. Weiler and Freya Baetens, eds. New Directions in International Economic Law: In Memoriam Thomas Waelde (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011), pp. 180-198, September 2011.

Lisa Sachs, Joel Negin and Glenn Denning, "Wider role for our miners in Africa," The Australian Financial Review, August 31, 2011.

Karl P. Sauvant, "You don't have to be big to be a multinational," Letter to the editor, Financial Times, August 25, 2011.

Karl P. Sauvant, “The regulatory framework for investment: where are we headed?” in Ravi Ramamurti and Niron Hashai, eds., The Future of Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise (Emerald Group Publishing: 2011), pp. 407-433. See also the table of contents and front matter, or visit the Emerald Bookstore for ordering information.

Karl P. Sauvant, "Overcoming liability of foreignness," op. ed., China Daily, May 23, 2011.

Interview with Karl P. Sauvant (and others), "Learning from experience: An interview with three experts," Political Risk Insurance Newsletter, Vol. VII, Issue 1, May 2011, pp. 1, 4-8.

Karl P. Sauvant, “China: inward and outward foreign direct investment,” in Transnational Corporations Review, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2011.

Karl P. Sauvant, “Preface to ‘Impact Assessments of Investment Treaties’”, in Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Markus W. Gehring and Andrew Newcombe, eds., Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Alphen: Wolters Kluwer, 2011), pp. 145-148, January 2011.

Karl P. Sauvant and Ken Davies, "Le Defi Chinois," op. ed., Project Syndicate, December 2, 2010. This article was reprinted in the following publications: Biencar Hebdo (Cameroon); Ethio-Chamber (Ethiopia); Les Echos (Mali); Le Quotidien de Nouakchott (Mauritania); The New Times (Rwanda); The Shanghai Daily (China); Jakarta Post (Indonesia); The Japan Times (Japan); Business World (Phillipines); Taipei Times (Taiwan); Wyborcza (Poland); Goodwill (Slovakia); Valor (Brazil); Al Eqtisadiah (Saudi Arabia); Borsen (Denmark); Le Nouvel Economiste (France); II sole – 24 Ore (Italy); The Malta Independent (Malta); L’Agefi (Switzerland).

Karl P. Sauvant, “Preface.” in Hugh Deng, Hang Wu, Gloria Yuan, and Jingfeng Zhao, eds., Transnational Corporations in China: Research and Development (Ottawa: Ottawa Learning Academy, The School of Economics and Management and Northwest University (China), 2010).

Karl P. Sauvant, “Future challenges for Chinese multinational enterprises”, in Fred Dubee and Vivienne Luk, eds., China the Way Forward (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist University, 2010), in Chinese and English.

Interview with Karl P. Sauvant in O Globo .

Interview with Karl P. Sauvant for "The Rise of China" (video), in celebration of China's 60th Anniversary (produced by Netease).

Karl P. Sauvant, “FDI Protectionism Is on the Rise,” Policy Research Working Paper 5052 (The World Bank, September 2009). Shorter versions of this paper were published in Evenett et al. (eds), “The fateful allure of protectionism: Taking stock for the G8,” The World Bank and Center for Economic Policy Research (2009), pp. 53-56, available here, and in the World Bank Research Digest (fall 2009), available here.

Karl P. Sauvant, "We must guard against growing protectionism," op. ed., Shanghai Daily, August 4, 2009. This op. ed. (also published as Beware of FDI Protectionism) also appeared in Les Echos (Mali), Joong Ang Ilbo and The Korea Times (Republic of Korea),Al Eqtisadiah (Saudi Arabia), Al Watan Daily and Al Jarida (Kuwait), Al Mal (United Arab Emirates),Jornal De Negocios (Portugal), The Edge (Malaysia),Business World (Philippines), I Naftemporiki (Greece),Business Day (Nigeria), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Jakarta Post (Indonesia), L'Echo (Belgium), Poslovni Dnevnik (Croatia), Aripaev (Estonia), L'Agefi (Switzerland), Ekonomichna Pravda (Ukraine), and Peru Economico (Peru).

Lisa E. Sachs, "Bilateral investment treaties and FDI flows," WAIPA Newsletter, Issue 5, Quarter 2 (2009).

Karl P. Sauvant, “The rise of FDI protectionism,” in A New Investment Paradigm, OCO Insight (OCO Global, 2008/2009).

Nely Caixeta, "Learning from the Crisis,"Presença Internacional do Brasil, May/June 2009, pp. 22-25. In this interview with Karl P. Sauvant, Dr. Sauvant discusses the impact of the financial crisis on emerging markets. [Also: Editors' note: "Two way street."]

Karl P. Sauvant, "Watch out for the rise of protectionism in FDI," Letter to the editor, Financial Times, March 14, 2009.

Karl P. Sauvant, "Pondering FDI in Crisis: investment could drop or it just might rise," op. ed., Shanghai Daily, November 28, 2008.

Karl P. Sauvant, "Emerging markets' FDI strikes sensitive nerve," op. ed., Shanghai Daily, October 23, 2008.

Karl P. Sauvant and Clarence Kwan (2008), "Chinese Direct Investment in the United States-- The Challenges Ahead," Location USA, pp. 39-46. This article is based on a longer working paper of the same name, published by the U.S. Chinese Services Group of Deloitte LLP and the Vale Columbia Center. (download)

Karl P. Sauvant (2008), "Des contrats plus justes pour les pays pauvres," op. ed., Le Monde (France). This op. ed. (published in English as “ Fair Contracts for Poor Countries”) also appeared in Les Echos (Mali), Standard Times (Sierra Leone), The Independent (Bangladesh), Modern Weekly (China), The Korea Times (Republic of Korea), The Edge (Malaysia), Daily Times (Pakistan), Business World (Philippines), Taipei Times (Taiwan Province of China), I Naftemporiki (Greece), The Malta Independent (Malta), Jornal De Negocios (Portugal), Reforma (Mexico), El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua), La Prensa (Panama), Al Tijaria (Bahrain), Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed (Iraq), Al Eqtisadiah (Saudi Arabia), Yemen Times (Yemen), and Diario Las Americas (USA).

Karl P. Sauvant (2008), "Outward FDI from Emerging Markets: Some Policy Issues," in John H. Dunning and Philipe Gugler, Foreign Direct Investment, Location and Competitiveness: Progress in International Business Research, volume 2 (Oxford: Elsevier Ltd, 2008), pp. 279-284.

Karl P. Sauvant (2007), "Africa: the FDI opportunities are local," International Trade Forum (online), 1/2007.

Karl P. Sauvant (2007), "FDI goes local: the Millennium Cities Initiative," International Trade Forum, 1 (Geneva: International Trade Centre), pp. 29-30.

Karl P. Sauvant, “Os novos garotos no pedaço” in Valor Econômico (Brazil), December 6, 2007.

Karl P. Sauvant (2006), "Inward and outward FDI and the BRICs", in Subhash C. Jain (ed.), Emerging Economies and the Transformation of International Business: Brazil, Russia, India and China (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar), pp. 313-409. For purchasing information please visit Edward Elgar. A part of this chapter was published, under the title "New sources of FDI: the BRICs. Outward FDI from Brazil, Russia, India and China," [download pdf] in the Journal of World Investment & Trade, vol. 6 (October 2005), pp. 639-709; an abbreviated version is published in Portuguese in André Almeida (org.), Internacionalização de Empresas Brasileiras: Perspectivas e Riscos (São Paulo, Brazil: Elsevier Editora Ltda, 2007), pp.37-78.

Karl P. Sauvant (2006), "Chávez strategy points to emerging nation rethink on approach to FDI," letter to the editor, Financial Times, January 15, 2006.

Karl P. Sauvant (2006), "Without investment, the countries have nothing to trade," letter to the editor, Financial Times, December 27, 2006.

Karl P. Sauvant (2006), "Les investisseurs étrangers sont-ils encore les bienvenus?," op. ed. , Le Monde, October 10, 2006. This op. ed. also appeared in the Shanghai Daily (China), Bangkok Post (Thailand), Korea Herald (Republic of Korea), Taipei Times (Taiwan), Companion (Ukraine), Les Echos (Mali), Daily Times (Pakistan), Reforma (Brazil), The Edge Daily (Malaysia), Hong Kong Economic Journal (Hong Kong),Business Report (South Africa), Webdairy (Australia), Delo (Slovenia), Valor (Brazil), La Opinion (USA), Het Financieele Dagblad (The Netherlands) and Altmotamar (Yemen), Business World (Philippines), AKI-Press (Kyrgyzstan), Belarusians and the Market (Belarus), L'Echo (Belgium), Respekt (Czech Republic), Aripaev (Estonia), Logos Press (Moldova), El Observador (Uruguay), Al Eqtisadiah (Saudi Arabia), Diario Las Americas (USA).

Karl P. Sauvant (2006), "A backlash against foreign direct investment?" in World Investment Prospects to 2010: Boom or Backlash? (London, UK: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd.), pp 71-77.

Karl P. Sauvant (2006), "We need to think about policy implications of integration," letter to the editor, Financial Times, June 14, 2006.

Karl P. Sauvant (2005), "Reservoirs of the future," in Samuel Passow and Magnus Runnbeck (eds.), What's Next? Strategic Views on Foreign Direct Investment (Jönköping, Sweden: Invest in Sweden Agency), pp. 90-97.