OECD Working Papers on International Investment

ISSN :
1815-1957 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/18151957
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Selected studies on international investment and investment policy prepared for use within the OECD. They address such issues as investment agreements, dispute settlement, fair and equitable treatment, most favored nation treatment, and corruption.
 

Defining and Measuring Green FDI

An Exploratory Review of Existing Work and Evidence You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Stephen S. Golub1, Céline Kauffmann1, Philip Yeres2
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OECD, France

  • 2: Swarthmore College, United States

Publication Date
01 Sep 2011
Bibliographic information
No:
2011/02
Pages
52
DOI
10.1787/5kg58j1cvcvk-en

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This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify investment policy restrictions to green FDI. It does so by reviewing the literature and existing work on the contributions of FDI to the environment; by providing a two-part definition of green FDI; and by discussing various assumptions necessary to estimate the magnitude of 'green' FDI.
Keywords:
environmental goods and services, green FDI, FDI measurement, foreign investment, technology transfer, international investment, green growth
JEL Classification:
  • E01: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics / General / Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
  • F21: International Economics / International Factor Movements and International Business / International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
  • F23: International Economics / International Factor Movements and International Business / Multinational Firms; International Business
  • Q01: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / General / Sustainable Development
  • Q56: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth