Subject(s): Globalization -- Foreign Direct investment -- FDI and benefits -- MAI and the politics of failure : Internal difficulties emerged, NGOs -- Dissecting the MAI: structure, goal, scope and application, Obligations of host countries, Dispute settlement procedures -- Globalization, foreign direct investment and labour : Wages in developing countries, Sweatshop issue, US direct investment abroad and employment in the US -- Globalisation, foreign direct investment and the environment -- MAI and the developing countries : Negotiation on the investment between developing and developed countries -- Where does the multilateral investment agenda go from here : WTO