The EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy: Perspectives From Australia
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines perceptions in Australia of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy, drawing on interviews conducted with government officials, experts and civil society actors. The EU is regarded positively as a friend and partner of Australia and equally committed to the maintenance of the rules‐based international order. Conversely,
Anne McNaughton +4 more
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Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries? [PDF]
Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via ...
Laura Spess, Eric Neumayer
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Entrenching the right to regulate in the international investment legal framework: The African experience [PDF]
, 2019 Doctor Legum - LLDThe existing traditional international investment law regime which is largely based on the conventional European and North American Model Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) has come under intense criticism. The argument is that this
Chidede, Talkmore
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines transformations in contemporary global migration governance, with a particular focus on the effectiveness, robustness and democratic credentials of the UN Global Compacts on Migration and on Refugees. We examine valuable innovations, such as the workings of regularly organised platforms, which adopt a ‘whole of society ...
Felix Peerboom +2 more
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Business Environment in Developing Countries: the Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties [PDF]
Bilateral Investment Treaty’s effects on FDI and the domestic business environment remain unexplored despite the proliferation of treaties over the past several years.
Jennifer Tobin, Susan Rose-Ackerman
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The effect of addback statutes on CEO compensation
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 793-818, March 2025.Abstract Exploiting the adoption of addback statutes, which occurred at different times, as exogenous shocks to corporate taxable income, we examine the effect of tax policy changes on the compensation of chief executive officers (CEOs). We provide evidence that CEOs of firms headquartered in states affected by addback statutes experienced a decrease ...
Karel Hrazdil +3 more
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Own interest and foreign need: Are bilateral investment treaty programmes similar to aid allocation? [PDF]
Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most important legal mechanism for the encouragement of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries.
Eric Neumayer
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Can a multilateral agreement on investment reduce double tax treaty abuse in developing countries? [PDF]
, 2017 Magister Philosophiae - MPhilOver the years, the world economy has experienced growth in foreign direct investments (FDI), with the role of developing countries becoming more evident as both recipients and investors alike.
Jantjies, Dumisani Joseph
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Pros and Cons of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2021 The main objectives of the present paper are to elaborate on the EUChina Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), its provisions, advantages and potential risks, and to detach various standpoints of relevant actors, related to this agreement.
Iulia Monica Oehler-Șincai
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio +2 more
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