1. 1 Transnational corporations and the United Nations: the evolution of the international policy and legal debate over 30 years by Karl P. Sauvant Executive Director Columbia Program on International Investment Chalfen Memorial Lecture British Institute of International and Comparative Law London, 27 April 2006 Background charts

2. 2 FDI flows have risen substantially… Inward FDI flows, 1970-2005 (Billions of dollars) Source: UNCTAD, based on UNCTAD FDI/TNC database.

3. 3 …accumulating in FDI stock... Inward FDI stock, 1980-2005 (Billions of dollars) Source: UNCTAD, based on UNCTAD FDI/TNC database.

4. 4 The national FDI framework has become more welcoming… Number of changes in national FDI regimes, by year and cumulative, 1991-2004 Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report: 2005 Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of R&D (Geneva: UNCTAD, 2005), p. 26.

5. 5 …complemented by bilateral investment treaties… Number of BITs concluded, cumulative, 1970–2004 Source: UNCTAD (www.unctad.org/iia).

6. 6 …and preferential trade and investment agreements. The growth of international investment agreements other than BITs and DTTs, 1957 – June 2005 (Number) Source: UNCTAD (www.unctad.org/iia). Note: PTIAs = preferential trade and investment agreements.

7. 7 But the number of international investment disputes has risen as well… Number of known international investment arbitrations, 1987-2005 a/ (newly instituted cases by year and cumulative number) Source:UNCTAD. a/ As of November 2005.

8. 8 …in ICSID and elsewhere. Disputes by rules of arbitration as of November 2005. Source:UNCTAD. Note: SCC = Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; ICC = International Chamber of Commerce.