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Breakfast session 1.  New frontiers in investment promotion

• “New direction of Korea’s foreign direct investment policy in the multi-track FTA era: Inducement and aftercare services”. Choong Yong Ahn
• “The influence of government policy and NGOs on capturing private investment”.  Gayle Allard and Candace Agrella Martinez 
• Policies promoting MNE linkages in host economies: A comparison between Brazil and Malaysia. Giroud Axèle and Botelho Delane
• “FDI in Romania: Evolution and main types of large firms in the manufacturing sector”. Maria Birsan and Anuta Buiga 
• Economic development in a Rubik’s Cube world. Susanne Dirks, Mary Keeling and Ronan Lyons, IBM Global Business Services, IMB Institute for Business Value.
• “The motives and impediments to FDI in the CIS”. Alina Kudina and Malgorzata Jakubiak
• Aftercare: A Core Function in Investment Promotion, Investment Advisory Series A, number 1. UNCTAD (2007)  www.unctad.org
• Investment Promotion Agencies as Policy Advocates, Investment Advisory Series A, number 2. UNCTAD (2008)  www.unctad.org
• Harnessing ICT for FDI and Development. World Bank, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (2008)  www.miga.org
• Investment promotion agencies and the world competition for foreign direct investment: A survey of institutional frameworks. Mariana Zanatta, Edilaine Camillo, Flávia Consoni, and Pollyana Varrichio
• Harnessing ICT for FDI and development. Dr. Persephone Economou

Breakfast session 2. The Columbia Emerging Market Global Players Project

• Information on the Columbia Emerging Market Global Players Project can be found at  www.cpii.columbia.edu
• 'South-south’ FDI and political risk insurance: challenges and opportunities. World Bank Group, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (2008)  www.pri-center.com/documents/south_south/report.pdf
• Unknown Multinationals: the case of Slovenia, Dr. Jaklič Andreja and Dr. Marjan Svetličič

Breakfast session 3.  Measuring the business climate

• FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index, OECD Investment Division
• Making reforms succeed : Moving forward with the investment policy agenda, MENA-OECD (2007)
• Proposal: Business Climate Development Strategy. OECD-World Bank (2007).
• FDI indicators project overview. World Bank, FIAS (2008).

Breakfast session 4. The IISD Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development and stocktaking of investment incentives

• The IISD Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development: Assessing Progress at Three Years, Howard Mann, International Institute for Sustainable Development
• IISD Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development: Negotiators’ Handbook (second edition) (IISD) Howard Mann, Konrad von Moltke, Luke Eric Pterson, and Aaron Cosbey (2006). www.iisd.org
• Investment Incentives: Growing use, uncertain benefits, uneven controls: An exploration of government measures to attract investment, (Global Subsidies Initiative, IISD) Kenneth Thomas (2007). www.iisd.org