Karl P. Sauvant and Nancy N. Stephen, “Increasing Transparency in Investment Facilitation: Focused Support is Needed”, Columbia FDI Perspectives, no. 307, 14 June 2021; also available here in Chinese.
Abstract
A review of 60 countries from all regions suggests that the transparency of key aspects of investment-facilitation measures is uneven across country groups. Developing countries – and especially the least developed among them – will require substantial technical assistance to increase transparency.