Edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs (Columbia University Press, July 2016). View the chapter teasers The use of incentives to attract investment is connected to and impacts the most pressing challenges facing us today, including climate change, corruption, employment, development, harmful competition, and public spending efficiency. How, when, where, and why… read more
In this policy paper, CCSI analyzes the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement’s Investment Chapter and responds to the USTR’s claims that the “TPP upgrades and improves ISDS” and “closes loopholes and raises standards higher than any past agreements.” Indeed, CCSI finds a number of problems from previous trade agreements that have been carried over into the TPP, and new provisions added to the TPP that do not appear in other US FTAs and that raise additional concerns.
Date: November 10-11, 2015 8:30am-5:30pm
Location: Faculty House, Columbia University, New York
Date: November 5-6, 2015
Location: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
CCSI strongly supports the transparency of contracts and tax flows. CCSI shares the belief of many stakeholders that transparency is essential to leverage extractive industries for sustainable development and is in the mutual interest of all stakeholders. However, some industry players continue to voice the concern that increased transparency would be harmful for their business…. read more
Date: October 8, 2015, 6:30-8:00pm – Reception following
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
Date: September 24, 2015 – February 4, 2016 12:10-1:00pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 546
The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and the World Economic Forum had established the E15 Initiative, to examine the challenges faced by the international trade and investment regime. One of the project’s Task Forces dealt with investment policy. CCSI’s Karl P Sauvant was asked to be the Theme Leader of that Task Force,… read more
Date: July 13-17, 2015
Location: Columbia University
Date: July 9, 2015, 5:00-7:00pm
Location: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104