Negotiation of the Code was formally suspended in 1992. With the Commission that it was designed to support no longer working on the Code, the Center on Transnational Corporations became increasingly embattled, and later that year the UNCTC was dispersed. Some of its staff were relocated from New York to Geneva and folded into UNCTAD’s Division on Investment and Technology, where they helped launch the annual World Investment Report, a new flagship publication that reflected well the change in attitudes at the United Nations toward multinationals (Bair 2007).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1798