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Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

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Karl P. Sauvant is a senior fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment at Columbia University.

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  1. The WTO’s FDI Challenge
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    The WTO’s FDI Challenge

    Feb 22, 2024 Karl P. Sauvant urges the World Trade Organization’s members to adopt the new Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement.

  2. Putting FDI on the G20 Agenda
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    Putting FDI on the G20 Agenda

    Aug 3, 2018 Karl P. Sauvant & Axel Berger argue for better coordination of international investment policies to avert the equivalent of a trade war.

  3. How Investment Agreements Can Protect Free Media
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    How Investment Agreements Can Protect Free Media

    Jul 11, 2016 Lee C. Bollinger & Karl P. Sauvant see transformative significance in a lawsuit brought by Al Jazeera against the Egyptian government.

  4. Equal Treatment for Outward Investors
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    Equal Treatment for Outward Investors

    Jun 13, 2012 Karl P. Sauvant

  5. China, Inc. Goes Global
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    China, Inc. Goes Global

    Nov 30, 2011 Karl P. Sauvant

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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