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Environmental Protection and Investment Arbitration: Yin and Yang?

ACDI: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional, 2017
This article explores the interactions between international environmental law and international investment law. It discusses existing tools and procedural devices available before international courts and tribunals to promote compliance with emerging ...
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
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‘Let's Go to the Land Instead’: Indigenous Perspectives on Biodiversity and the Possibilities of Regenerative Capital

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The land has been a source of capital accumulation since colonization through extractive activities like mining and industrial agriculture. Indigenous peoples have profoundly different relationships with the land, which are more relational than extractive. However, their knowledge has been subjugated by and systematically excluded from Western
Diane‐Laure Arjaliès, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee   +1 more
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Foreign Direct Investment Dynamics in South Africa: Reforms, Trends and Challenges

Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2019
This paper gives an overview of foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Africa from 1980 to 2017. It highlights trends in FDI inflows, reforms that have been implemented to date, and challenges that need to be addressed in order to increase the FDI ...
Musakwa Mercy T., Odhiambo Nicholas M.
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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

Bilateral Investment Treaties; ; A strategy for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in developing countries [PDF]

برنامه‌ریزی و بودجه
In recent decades, bilateral and multilateral investment treaties have become key international legal tools to encourage foreign direct investment (FDI) by providing protections that attract foreign investors.
mostafa heidari haratemeh
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Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the 1921–1923 trade war between Norway and Portugal as a historical case for exploring business responses to deglobalization and trade disruption. Focusing on the international supply chains (ISCs) of port wine and salted and dried cod, it investigates how business actors contributed to the recoupling of ISCs after a ...
Rolv Petter Amdam, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Trudi Henrydotter Eikrem, Maria Eugenia Mata   +3 more
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Revisiting the Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties in Foreign Direct Investment

Research in Applied Economics
This article revisits the role of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). It investigates, in particular, the institutional quality of the host countries, the number of cases brought for resolution, plus a more nuanced formulation of numbers of BITs, focusing on developing host countries.The analysis looks at more ...
Cusimano, Alessandro, Godwin, Eun Sun, McKay, Stephen, Potocnik, Metka   +3 more
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Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
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Patent landscape analysis of inventions based on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and related digital sequence information

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article provides an overview of the patent landscape in relation to PGRFA‐based inventions involving naturally occurring (“native”) traits and related Digital Sequence Information/Genetic Sequence Data (DSI/GSD). In particular, it focuses on the potential of patent claims to limit others' uses of PGRFA and related DSI/GSD on which the ...
Claudio Chiarolla, Michael Andreas Kock, Paul Oldham, Michael Halewood, Isabel López Noriega, Jasmine Kindness   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons on State and Local Income Taxes From the Twenty‐First Century and Challenges for the Future

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract I survey recent research on subnational income tax policy, arguing that a defining feature is geography. Geographic boundaries limit the power of subnational governments to tax people and activities. The article discusses where income should be taxed and the effects of these tax rules on the interjurisdictional mobility of people and jobs.
David R. Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source