CIAO DATE: 04/2014
March 2014
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Looking at a rear-view mirror, skeptics assert that efforts to create a plurilateral Investment Framework Agreement (IFA) are doomed. We argue that conditions on the ground have changed: in the 2010s, unlike the 1990s, many countries would welcome an IFA under WTO auspices
Resource link: The case for a framework agreement on investment [PDF] - 79K