我国外资准入制度的现状、问题及其重构

我国对外资不区分行业一律进行普遍的多元行政审批,不仅导致审批效率的低下与行政资源的浪费,而且不利于实现合理利用、引导外资为我国经济结构调整及产业升级服务的政策目标。外资准入制度的改革是一项需多方协调配合的系统工程。实体性行业政策的科学制定是外资准入制度重构的前提与基础。审批程序的改革则需区分具体行业,从鼓励类、允许类等对我国国民经济冲击较小的行业开始,分层次、分步骤地逐步简化外资准入的审批层级,合理限定审批内容。另外,在优化审批程序的同时,应构筑多重风险防范体系,通过国家安全审查、反垄断审查等立体化制度安排,防范外资对我国尚处于发展中的国民经济体系造成过度冲击。     

从招商引资形势看贵州招商引资政策

招商引资是一个地区经济起飞的重要条件。受国际金融危机的影响,全球FDI（直接投资）格局发生了重大变化。我国使用外资绝对值在上升,相对值却在减少。20世纪末以来,贵州为引进外资提供了一些优惠政策,但也存在一系列问题。文章针对贵州招商引资现状和问题,围绕投资促进理念、营造投资环境、招商引资评估系统以及产业系统提出建议。     

基础教育资源不正当竞争探析

基础教育,涉及到每个公民的基本素养和生活品质,关系着国家的发展和民族的命运。基础教育的盛衰,取决于教育资源配置的状况。教育资源既包括教育资金、设施等硬件部分,也包括教育政策、师资、校园文化等软件部分。一般来说,物质决定精神,硬件资源决定软件资源。而教育资源则不然,教育政策决定着资金的投向、教学设施和师资力量的配置。教育政策的不当,导致教育资源配置的不正当竞争,造成了地域之间、城乡之间教育资源配置的巨大差异。严重影响了基础教育的健康发展。要实现教育的公平,必须强化国家对基础教育投资的责任、加大投资力度、创立公平公正的教育资源配置机制、改革教育模式、规范资源配置行为、杜绝教育腐败,建立科学、和谐的基础教育资源配置新体系。     

中国——东盟投资自由化进程中的国民待遇问题探析

投资自由化是中国——东盟自由贸易区继贸易自由化之后一个更加深入和复杂的问题。文章基于《中国——东盟全面经济合作框架协议》、《中国——东盟全面经济合作框架协议投资协议》等基本法律文件,结合经济全球化的发展趋势和中国、东盟成员国吸引外国直接投资的相关实践,就外资待遇标准中的国民待遇作集中分析,以期明晰中国——东盟投资自由化发展方向和未来可能取得的成果。     

论《服务贸易总协定》的投资协定性质

《服务贸易总协定》在性质上是各国签订的国际投资协定,并非贸易协定,这是由服务本身的性质造成的。从《服务贸易总协定》的性质和宗旨看,发达国家有意搭多边贸易体制的便车,以服务贸易之名行对外投资之实;从《服务贸易总协定》对服务的分类看,商业存在和自然人流动无疑要伴随着跨国投资;从《服务贸易总协定》对最惠国待遇和国民待遇的规定看,这里的待遇实际上是给予服务的提供者而不仅仅是给予作为商品的服务;从《服务贸易总协定》对市场准入的规定看,市场准入允许服务提供者在他国进行投资设业,这涉及东道国对外资的审批。《服务贸易总协定》的签订,不仅丰富了世界贸易组织的议题,也为世界贸易组织的运行带来了新的挑战。     

基于环境的管制措施与间接征收的冲突和协调

晚近处理间接征收的国际实践中,政府的环境管制措施未作为例外对待。环境征收措施基于企业社会责任、污染者负担原则、治安权例外、条约义务、预防原则、国家环境义务优先的理由应具有不予补偿的合法性。我国投资协定间接征收条款中对环境例外应予明确规定,并细化具体判断标准。     

中俄两国经贸关系发展现状及其广阔前景

中俄两国是重要的经济贸易伙伴。在经受了2008年全球金融和经济危机冲击后,中俄两国经贸关系全面恢复和迅速发展。在中俄政府总理定期会晤制度框架下,建立了两国经济合作对话与协商机制。近年来,中俄贸易规模不断扩大,能源领域的合作日益深化,相互投资不断增加,地区间的经济贸易关系全面发展。全面提升贸易质量,扩大贸易规模,增加相互投资,深化能源合作,推动地区间和边境地区经贸合作,加强经济现代化领域合作,将成为中俄经贸关系发展的重要方向。     

Coercive Assets? Foreign Direct Investment and the Use of Economic Sanctions

How does foreign direct investment (FDI) affect the use of economic coercion? This article argues that while FDI matters, the effect depends on the entry mode of the FDI. The economic interdependence created by FDI does not have a monotonic effect on economic statecraft because the relative costs incurred by economic disruption differ depending on the forms of foreign investment. In particular, the FDI that creates wholly-owned subsidiaries (for example, cross-border mergers and aquisitions) imposes greater costs to the sender's firms than cross-border joint ventures with local partners, while FDI through joint ventures incurs greater costs for the host than the home country and its firms. By utilizing US sanction episodes from the Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions (TIES) dataset, the empirical analysis supports the argument. The results show that economic sanctions are less likely to occur as the share of FDI through cross-border mergers and acquisitions increases.     

Conditional on Conditionality: IMF Program Design and Foreign Direct Investment

The article explores how International Monetary Fund (IMF) program design influences foreign direct investment inflows. The author argues that stricter IMF conditionality signals a program-participating government's commitment to economic reforms, as it incurs larger ex ante political cost and risks greater ex post political cost. Thus, the catalytic effect of an IMF program is conditional on conditionality: programs with stricter conditions catalyze more foreign direct investment than those with less stringent conditions. Empirical analysis of the IMF conditionality dataset supports the argument and shows that after accounting for IMF program participation, the more structural conditions included in an IMF program, the more foreign direct investment flows into the country.     

Retrospection and Perspective of Foreign Investment Legislation in China (1979–2009)

Thirty years have passed for foreign investment legislation in China since the promulgation of the first foreign investment law in 1979. The remarkable achievements in the past 30 years under the China’s reform and open policy have benefited from introduction of foreign investment to a large extent as the result of foreign investment legislation and its changes. This paper starts with a retrospection of foreign investment legislation in China since 1979, followed by a discussion on the features and motives of changes in such legislation, and makes conclusions on the experience and lessons from the legislation, which will be conducive to further improvement of foreign investment legislation in China.