tailieunhanh - World Bank Guidelines on the Treatment of Foreign Direct Investment

The large size of the four banks relative to GDP and the banking system behooves careful attention to their vulnerabilities and resilience to shocks. 2 Any distress among these banks could have a sizable impact on the financial sector and the real economy in Australia and New Zealand. 3 Moreover, they may be perceived by the markets as too big to fail, which implies they could pose a potential fiscal liability. Against this backdrop and in the context of the ongoing discussion for systemically important global banks, the merits of higher capital requirements, complemented by intensive supervision, need to be considered for. | World Bank Guidelines on the Treatment of Foreign Direct Investment The Development Committee Recognizing that a greater flow of foreign direct investment brings substantial benefits to bear on the world economy and on the economies of developing countries in particular in terms of improving the long term efficiency of the host country through greater competition transfer of capital technology and managerial skills and enhancement of market access and in terms of the expansion of international trade that the promotion of private foreign investment is a common purpose of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency that these institutions have pursued this common objective through their operations advisory services and research that at the request of the Development Committee a working group established by the President of these institutions and consisting of their respective General Counsel has after reviewing existing legal instruments and literature as well as best available practice identified by these institutions prepared a set of guidelines representing a desirable overall framework which embodies essential principles meant to promote foreign direct investment in the common interest of all members that these guidelines which have benefited from a process of broad consultation inside and outside these institutions constitute a further step in the evolutionary process where several international efforts aim to establish a favorable investment environment free from non-commercial risks in all countries and thereby foster the confidence of international investors and that these guidelines are not ultimate standards but an important step in the evolution of generally acceptable international standards which complement but do not substitute for bilateral investment treaties therefore calls the attention of member countries to the following Guidelines as useful .