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NAFTA's Chapter 11 and the Environment: Addressing the Impacts of the Investor-State Process on the Environment - Executive Summary

By IISD on January 16, 2002
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Foreign direct investment, or FDI, is critical to achieving sustainable development in developing countries. In the last two decades it has eclipsed official development assistance. Between one-third and one-half of all private investment in developing countries now comes from FDI. These flows are needed to replace unsustainable industries and infrastructures with sustainable ones. They may also bring spin-off benefits: investing firms may build up technological and management capacity in the host states, increasing their ability to sustainably manage their natural resources.

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