Introduction

Joerg Weber discussed* the first two challenges associated with current international investment rulemaking which were identified in the background note for this meeting - the issue of policy coherence and the balancing of private and public interests in IIA. In this paper the author discussed the remaining third challenge, that is, how to strengthen the development dimension of IIAs and how to improve capacity building in developing countries. This third challenge cannot be strictly separated from the two others. Policy coherence and the balancing of interests clearly ...