The Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment seeks to be a leader on issues related to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the global economy, paying special attention to the sustainability dimension of this investment. The Center focuses on the analysis and teaching of the implications of FDI for public policy and international investment law. Its objectives are to analyze important topical policy-oriented issues related to FDI, develop and disseminate practical approaches and solutions, and provide students with a challenging learning environment.
Additional Materials from Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment: Policy Briefs
Title: Meeting Summary of Colloquium on Policy, Law, Contracts, and Sustainable Development
Date: November 2014Title: The Mauritius Convention on Transparency: Comments on the treaty and its role in increasing transparency of investor-State arbitration
Authors: Lise Johnson
Date: September 2014Title: The China-EU BIT: The emerging "Global BIT 2.0"?
Authors: Wenhua Shan, Lu Wang
Date: August 2014Title: Withdrawing incentives to attract FDI: Can host countries put the genie back in the bottle?
Authors: Anna De Luca
Date: July 2014Title: The Transparency Rules and Transparency Convention: A good start and model for broader reform in investor-state arbitration
Authors: Lise Johnson
Date: July 2014Title: How to enhance labor provisions in IIAs,
Authors: Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Juan David Rodriguez-Rios
Date: June 2014Title: Cost allocation in investment arbitration: Forward toward incentivization
Authors: James Nicholson, John Gaffney
Date: June 2014Title: State Control over Interpretation of Investment Treaties
Authors: Lise Johnson, Merim Razbaeva
Date: April 2014Title: Outward FDI from Israel's Largest MNEs Continues to Rise in 2011
Date: April 2013Title: Inward FDI in Germany and its policy context, 2012
Authors: Thomas Jost
Date: April 2013Title: Inward FDI in Ireland and its policy context, 2012
Authors: Louis Brennan, Rakhi Verma
Date: March 2013Title: Inward FDI in the United States and its policy context
Authors: Lucyna Kornecki
Date: February 2013Title: Untying the land knot: Turning investment challenges into opportunities for all citizens
Authors: Xiaofang Shen
Date: November 2012Title: Outward FDI from Hungary and its policy context, 2012
Authors: Erzsébet Czakó, Magdolna Sass
Date: August 2012Title: Inward FDI in Uruguay and its policy context
Authors: Graciana del Castillo, Daniel García
Date: August 2012Title: Inward FDI in Russia and its policy context, 2012
Authors: Alexey Kuznetsov
Date: July 2012Title: Outward FDI from Greece and its policy context
Authors: Aristidis P. Bitzenis, Vasileios A. Vlachos
Date: December 2011Title: Inward FDI in Italy and its policy context
Authors: Marco Mutinelli, Lucia Piscitello
Date: December 2011Title: Inward FDI in Finland and its policy context
Authors: Dan Steinbock
Date: December 2011Title: Inward FDI in Argentina and its policy context, 2011
Authors: Alicia Inés Caballero
Date: December 2011Title: Inward FDI in Egypt and its policy context
Authors: Ahmed Kamaly
Date: October 2011Title: Outward FDI from Germany and its policy context: update 2011
Authors: Thomas Jost
Date: September 2011Title: Outward FDI from Colombia and its policy context
Authors: Ana-María Poveda Garcés
Date: September 2011Title: Outward FDI from Poland and its policy context, 2011
Authors: Zbigniew Zimny
Date: June 2011Title: Inward FDI in Portugal and its policy context, 2011
Authors: Vitor Corado Simões, Rui Manuel Cartaxo
Date: June 2011Title: Inward FDI in Norway and its policy context
Authors: Gabriel R.G. Benito, Leo A. Grünfeld
Date: April 2011Title: Inward FDI in Malaysia and its policy context
Authors: Rajah Rasiah, Chandran Govindaraju
Date: April 2011Title: Outward FDI from Italy and its policy context
Authors: Marco Mutinelli, Lucia Piscitello
Date: January 2011Title: Inward FDI in Pakistan and its policy context
Authors: Khalil Hamdani
Date: January 2011Title: Inward FDI in Israel and its policy context
Authors: Yair Aharoni
Date: January 2011Title: Inward FDI in Russia and its policy context
Authors: Alexey Kuznetsov
Date: November 2010Title: Inward FDI in Colombia and its policy context
Authors: Miguel Posada Betancourt
Date: September 2010Title: Inward FDI in Peru and its policy context
Authors: Benjamin Chavez, Jaime Dupuy
Date: August 2010Title: Israel's leading multinationals continue to expand domestically and abroad despite the crisis
Date: March 2010Title: Inward FDI in India and its policy context
Authors: Premila Nazareth Satyanand, Pramila Raghavendran
Date: March 2010Title: Chile's outward FDI and its policy context
Authors: Carlos Razo, Álvaro Calderón
Date: March 2010Title: Investment Opportuntities in Mekelle, Tigray State, Ethiopia
Authors: Bryant Cannon
Date: December 2009Title: Bamboo Bikes in Kisumu, Kenya
Authors: Katherine Athanasiades, Michelle Eames, Riham Hussein, Young Rhee
Date: December 2009Title: Russian outward FDI and its policy context
Authors: Andrei Panibratov, Kalman Kalotay
Date: October 2009Title: FDI Protectionism Is on the Rise
Authors: Karl P. Sauvant
Date: September 2009Title: The growth of Brazil's direct investment abroad and the challenges it faces
Authors: Luís Afonso Lima, Octavio de Barros
Date: August 2009Title: Outward investment by Trans-Latin enterprises: reasons for optimism
Authors: Michael Mortimore, Carlos Razo
Date: August 2009Title: Indian FDI falls in global economic crisis: Indian multinationals tread cautiously
Authors: Jaya Prakash Pradhan
Date: August 2009Title: Foreign Direct Investment in Blantyre, Malawi: Opportunities and Challenges
Authors: Sawa Nakagawa, Abhinav Bahl, Meron Demisse, Megumi Ishizuka, Francisco Miranda, Kwi Young Sung
Date: April 2009Title: Assessing Infrastructure Constraints on Business Activity in Blantyre, Malawi
Authors: Zaki Raheem
Date: April 2009Title: Improving the International Investment Regime: priorities for the new U.S. Administration
Authors: Petros C. Mavroidis, Curtis J. Milhaupt, Pablo M. Pinto, Peter Rosenblum, Karl P. Sauvant, Hans Smit
Date: January 2009Title: Sugar in Kisumu
Date: November 2008Title: Assessing Infrastructure Constraints on Business Activity in Kisumu, Kenya
Authors: Jacob Winiecki
Date: October 2008Title: Kumasi Marketing Strategy: Tourism
Authors: Dario Cacciatore, Andre Le, Nicholas Levi-Gardes, Antonio Lopez Reus, Kenny Sai-Kin Hsu
Date: September 2008Title: Assessing Infrastructure Constraints on Business Activity in Kumasi, Ghana
Authors: Ginger Baker
Date: September 2008Title: Bamboo Bicycles in Kumasi, Ghana
Date: April 2008