text New YorkUS UN 1999 monographic viii, 58 p. Analyses the legal and policy options surrounding the admission and establishment of foreign direct investment (FDI) by transnational corporations (TNCs) into host countries. Seeks to describe and assess the kinds of policy options that have emerged from the process of FDI growth and host country responses thereto in national laws, and more importantly, in bilateral, regional, plurilateral and multilateral investment agreements. DC 3/7/00 M2LMGR 11.03.03 U586