International Trade and Investment Agreements as Barriers to Food Environment Regulation for Public Health Nutrition: A Realist Review [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021 BackgroundAchieving healthy food systems will require regulation across the supply chain; however, binding international economic agreements may be constraining policy space for regulatory intervention in a way that limits uptake of ‘best-practice ...
Kelly Garton +2 more
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Corporate human rights obligations of investors in recent investment agreements: The progressive hardening process of CSR clauses [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Since the earlier indirect Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provisions failed to hold investors responsible for human rights abuses, the recent hardening process of direct CSR clauses has resulted in incorporating CSR clauses under sections or ...
Belengar Francis Maïnkade
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Analyzing the impact of trade and investment agreements on pharmaceutical policy: provisions, pathways and potential impacts [PDF]
Globalization and Health, 2019 Background Trade and investment agreements negotiated after the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) have included increasingly elevated protection of intellectual property rights along ...
Deborah Gleeson +7 more
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Back to sovereignty? Policy space in investor-State dispute settlement
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 2022 The paper examines how investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms -included in international investment agreements- are able to condition national policy space, even when foreign investors question measures regarding human rights, public health, or ...
Magdalena Bas
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Essence of contracts concluded for implementing corporate investment
Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, 2023 The article is focused on clarifying the essence of contracts in the field of corporate investment. Achieving the specified purpose is realized through the analysis of the relevant norms of the current legislation of Ukraine, court case-law and ...
O. Ye. Kukhariev
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Biodiversity Impacts of Investment and Free Trade Agreements [PDF]
, 2020 The following Article identifies the myriad ways in which international investment and free trade agreements interact with biodiversity. It categorizes these interactions into three main groups and provides a literature review of the various real-world ...
Rarrick, Lee C.
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Afghanistan Investment Policy Analysis
Управленческое консультирование, 2020 The article provides a comparative study of Afghanistan’s investment agreements. The aim was to determine Russia’s potential as a state supporting investments in Afghanistan’s economy. The analysis of investors was done on the basis of the Investment Map
E. V. Zhiryaeva, I. Mohammad
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Sustainable development goals in international investment promotion and protection agreements [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2023 Sustainable development goals represent the paradigm of international politics of the 21st century. Their importance is al so reflected in the growing number of national and international legal sources that directly or indirectly prescribe provisions for
Njegovan Milica D.
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Why Indonesia Should Keep Joining in Trade and Investment Agreements?
Hasanuddin Law Review, 2019 There have been some concerns over the existence of trade and investment agreements. They have been doubted because of the poverty and inequality issues in some regions across the globe.
I Gusti Ngurah Parikesit Widiatedja +2 more
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Governance of FDI and the East Asian Economic Community
Asia and the Global Economy, 2021 Policy makers in the Asia Economic Community (AEC) engaged in the integration of the countries in the region have so far focused their attention on measures affecting commodity markets. Integration of investment activities should follow in the future. To
Zdenek Drabek
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