State, money and rules: An EU policy for sovereign investments
Written by Katinka Barysch, Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford, 01 December 2008
The debate about sovereign wealth funds will return as global growth and commodity prices recover. European governments have been right to reject new EU rules on SWFs, and instead support multilateral efforts to set voluntary standards. But the risk of investment protectionism is not banished, as this essay argues.
