Expensive Poverty: Why Aid Fails and How it Can Work

Abstract

toolkit for countries looking to regain the regulatory power they have handed over to international law and institutions in the past. That said, legitimate concerns remain regarding how to strike an appropriate balance between national security concerns and the extent to which FDI flows are promoted and investments protected. Cheng Bian’s work, through undertaking an in-depth comparative study and proposing an extensive – and nuanced – normative framework makes for excellent reading for scholars and practitioners that are interested in how to approach this, including in the South African context where the Competition Act has been amended relatively recently to enable FDI screening on national security grounds.