Guidelines for multinational enterprises

OECD Working Papers on International Investment

 

The working paper series on international investment – including policies and trends and the broader implications of multinational enterprise – is designed to make available to a wide readership selected studies by the OECD Investment Committee, OECD Investment Division staff, or by outside consultants working on OECD Investment Committee projects. 

The full series of OECD Working Papers on International Investment is listed below in chronological order. Click on the links to download the papers in PDF file format.  The working papers, including descriptive abstracts, can also be accessed via the working paper category

 

2012

2012/3 - Investor-state dispute settlement: A scoping paper for the investment policy community

2012/2 - Dispute settlement provisions in international investment agreements: A large sample survey

2012/1 - Corporate greenhouse gas emission reporting: A stocktaking of government schemes 

 

2011

2011/2 - Defining and measuring green FDI: An exploratory review of existing work and evidence

2011/1 - Environmental concerns in international investment agreements: a survey

 

2010

2010/3 - OECD's FDI Restrictiveness Index: 2010 Update

2010/2 - Foreign state immunity and foreign government controlled investors

2010/1 - Intellectual property rights in international investment agreements

 

2008

International investment agreements: A survey of environmental, labour and anti-corruption issues

Investment guarantees and political risk insurance: Institutions, incentives and development

 

2007

Economic and other impacts of foreign corporate takeovers in OECD countries

Essential security interests under international investment law

 

2006

2006/4 - OECD's FDI regulatory restrictiveness index: Revision and extension to more economies

2006/3 - Interpretation of the Umbrella Clause in Investment Agreements

2006/2 - Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Infrastructure Projects

2006/1 - Improving the System of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: An Overview | French

 

2005

2005/3 - Corporate Responsibility Practices of Emerging Market Companies - A Fact-Finding Study

2005/2 - Multilateral Influences on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

2005/1 - Transparency and Third Party Participation in Investor-State Dispute Settlement Procedures | French

 

2004

2004/6 - Mobilising Investment for Development: Role of ODA - The 1993-2003 Experience in Vietnam

2004/5 - ODA and Investment for Development: What Guidance can be drawn from Investment Climate Scoreboards?

2004/4 - Indirect Expropriation and the Right to Regulate in International Investment Law | French |
               Косвенная экспроприация и право на регулирование в международном инвестиционном праве

2004/3 - Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Investment Law | French | 国际投资法上的公正与公平待遇标准

2004/2 - Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment in International Investment Law | French

2004/1 - Relationships between International Investment Agreements | French 

 

2003

2003/2 - Business Approaches to Combating Corrupt Practices | French 

2003/1 - Incentives-based Competition for Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Brazil

 

2002

2002/2 - Managing Working Conditions in the Supply Chain: A Fact-Finding Study of Corporate Practices

2002/1 - Multinational Enterprises in Situations of Violent Conflict and Widespread Human Rights Abuses | French

 

2001

2001/6 - Codes of Corporate Conduct: Expanded review of their contents

2001/5 - The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and other corporate responsibility instruments

2001/4 - Public policy and voluntary initiatives: What roles have governments played?

2001/3 - Making codes of corporate conduct work: Management control systems and corporate responsibility

2001/2 - Corporate Responsibility: Results of a fact-finding mission on private initiatives

2001/1 - Private Initiatives for Corporate Responsibility: An Analysis

 

2000

2000/5 - Recent trends, policies and challenges in South East European countries

2000/4 - Main determinants and impacts of FDI on China's economy

2000/3 - Lithuania: Foreign Direct Investment Impact and Policy Analysis

2000/2 - Investment Patterns in a Longer-Term Perspective

2000/1 - Bribery and the business sector: Managing the relationship

 

1999

1999/3 - Rules for the Global Economy: Synergies between Voluntary and Binding Approaches

1999/2 - Deciphering Codes of Corporate Conduct: A Review of their Contents

1999/1 - Southeast Asia: the Role of FDI Policies in Development

 

1998

1998/1 - Survey of OECD work on international investment

 

 

 

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