Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction: foreign direct investment and human development
Chapter 2. International investment law : the perpetual search for consensus
Chapter 3. Foreign direct investment as an engine for economic growth and human development : a review of the arguments and empirical evidence
Chapter 4. Determinants of foreign direct investment flows to developing countries : the role of international investment agreements
Chapter 5. What type of foreign direct investment is attracted by bilateral investment treaties?
Chapter 6. The host state : improving the monitoring of international invesment agreements at the national level
Chapter 7. Risk managers or risk promoters? The impacts of export credit and investment insurance agencies on human development and human rights
Chapter 8. Improving the framework of negotiations on international investment agreements
Chapter 9. The role of development banks : the European investment bank's substantive and procedural accountability principles with regard to human rights, social and environmental concerns