Regulating International Business

1999. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-333-77678-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

This timely book points the way towards a new positive regulatory framework for international investment following the failure of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). It examines the flaws in free-market strategies underpinning the recent phase of globalization, in particular drawing out the lessons from the MAI, which was suspended in October 1998. The authors explore an alternative based on a positive regulatory framework for international business aimed at maximizing the positive contribution to development of foreign investment and minimizing its negative social and environmental impacts. The contributors include academics, researchers for non-governmental organizations, and business and trade-union representatives, writing from a combination of economic, legal and political perspectives. The book combines academic analysis with grass-roots and practical experience, and suggests concrete policy proposals.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Picciotto, Sol

Mayne, Ruth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Notes on Contributors Glossary Introduction: What Rules for the World Economy?; S.Picciotto PART I: INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT PROTECTION AND LIBERALIZATION Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries; V.Balasubramanyam A Brief History of Business Regulation; P.Muchlinski Defending the Legacy of Rio: The Civil Society Campaign against the MAI; N.Mabey A Critical Assessment of the MAI; S. Picciotto PART II: BROADENING THE AGENDA The Implications of the MAI for Natural Resource and Land Use; L.Tshuma Improving Investor Accountability; D.Ayine & J.Werksman Transfer of Technology and Competition Policy in the Context of a Possible Multilateral Investment Agreement; P.Roffe Stabilizing Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Role of Regulation; S.Griffith-Jones Labour Regulation in Internationalized Markets; B.Hepple PART III: THE INTERACTION OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL REGULATION Voluntary Codes and Labour Standards; N.Kearney The Role of Voluntary Codes of Conduct and Regulation - a Retailer's View; P.Fridd & J.Sainsbury Regulating TNCs: The Role of Voluntary and Governmental Approaches; R.Mayne PART IV: THE POLITICS OF ACCOUNTABILITY NGOs, Global Civil Society and Global Economic Regulation; R.O'Brien Index

Über Autor(innen)

DOMINIC AYINE Graduate of the Universities of Legon in Ghana and Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA
V. N. BALASUBRAMANYAM Professor of Development Economics, Lancaster University, UK
PETRINA FRIDD Project Manager for Socially Responsible Sourcing at Sainsbury Plc
STEPHANY GRIFFITH-JONES Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, UK
BOB HEPPLE, QC Master of Clare College and Professor of Law, University of Cambridge, UK
NEIL KEARNEY General Secretary of the Brussels-based International Textile, Garment and Leather-Workers' Federation
JENNY KIMMIS Research Assistant at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, UK
NICK MABEY Head of Economic Policy at the World Wide Fund for Nature-UK
PETER MUCHLINSKI The Draper's Professor of Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK
ROBERT O'BRIEN Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Member of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University, Canada
SOL PICCIOTTO Professor of Law, Lancaster University, UK
PEDRO ROLFE Staff Member of UNCTAD
JESSICA SAINSBURY Project Assistant for Socially Responsible Sourcing at Sainsbury Plc
LAWRENCE TSHUMA Programme Legal Counsel at the International Development Law Institute, Rome, Italy
JACOB WERKSMAN Managing Director and Senior Lawyer at FIELD (the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development)