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This guide is a preliminary overview of Liberia as a location for investment. It provides brief accounts of the main areas of opportunity in Liberia, along with the incentives offered by the government; describes the operating environment for business; and offers an overview of the tax system and the legal framework for investors. It also highlights some of the current foreign investments in various areas, so as to give potential investors a sampling of who is in Liberia and what they are doing.

The report contains the first authoritative data on FDI flows for 2006 and forecasts flows until 2011, with 2007 set for a new record. It also contains the results of a survey of over 600 corporate executives concerning their investment intentions for the next five years. World Investment Prospects to 2011 pays special attention to the rise of FDI protectionism and regulatory risk.

In December 2013, a diverse group of 14 experts from Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe worked together for five days to produce a user-friendly guide in English and in French on "Mining Contracts: How to Read and Understand Them," to help policy makers, civil society, citizens, and the media understand the often complex and opaque terms of mining contracts. With increasing calls for contract transparency – and the growing recognition of the importance of the terms of contracts for resource-rich countries – this book explains in layman's terms the principal features of a contract, compares different approaches to key issues, and supplies the context and background necessary for non-specialists to understand how contracts are negotiated and what they say. Senior CCSI Researchers Lise Johnson and Perrine Toledano were among the authors. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sustainable_investment_books/1006/thumbnail.jpg