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This book explores how trade and foreign investment can be harnessed to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Its multi-disciplinary approach will appeal to economists, lawyers and political scientists who work on economic globalization and/or development, as well as domestic and international policymakers.
List of contents
Part I. Penetration and Diffusion of the Sustainable Development Goals: 1. A cross-cutting legal analysis of the EU PTAs' chapters on sustainable development: further steps towards the attainment of the SDGs? Giovanna Adinolfi; 2. The European Union's new international investment policy and the United Nation's sustainable development goals: integration as motor of substantive policy change? J. Robert Basedow; 3. Natural resources management in the SDGs era: insights from the WTO case law Ilaria Espa; Part II. Top Down: Public Approaches to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: 4. The trade effects of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements Axel Berger, Clara Brandi, Jean-Frederic Morin and Jacob Schwab; 5. Facilitating sustainable investment: the role and limits of investment promotion agencies Sarah Bauerle Danzman and Geoffrey Gertz; Part III. Bottom-Up: Private Sector and Civil Society Initiatives on the Sustainable Development Goals: 6. Voluntary standards, trade and sustainable development Matteo Fiorini, Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan and Bernard Hoekman; 7. The role of VSS in sustainable livelihoods for cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire Lee Ann Jackson and Kossivi Balema; 8. Unblocking the trade pipes: using blockchain technology to facilitate trade for sustainable development Alisa DiCaprio, Christine McDaniel, Badri G. Narayanan and Hanna C. Norberg; 9. The effects of environmental costs on public support for foreign direct investment: differences between the United States and India Hye-Sung Kim and Youngchae Lee.
Summary
This book explores how trade and foreign investment can be harnessed to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Its multi-disciplinary approach will appeal to economists, lawyers and political scientists who work on economic globalization and/or development, as well as domestic and international policymakers.
