Investment Incentives

The use of incentives to attract, keep, and shape investment impacts the most pressing challenges facing us today, including climate change, corruption, employment, development, harmful competition, and public spending efficiency. How, when, where, and why governments use incentives to attract investment is critically important to whether and how society benefits from investments. However, the use of incentives is not well monitored, evaluated, or understood. This necessitates a closer look and, in many cases, a policy response.

For more of CCSI’s work in this area see our:

• Report: Investment Incentives: A Survey of Policies and Approaches for Sustainable Investment
• Guide: Guide on Incentives for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems
• Book: Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options
• Videos: Short insights highlighting aspects of the book
• Event: Conference on “Investment Incentives – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing the Costs, Benefits, and Options for Policy Reform” 
• Article: Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment (available here)
• T20 submissions and papers: Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment (spinoff here)

Authors

Perrine Toledano

Director of Research and Policy

Ladan Mehranvar

Senior Legal Researcher

Lisa Sachs

Director

Themes

• International Investment Law