International Trade and Investment Agreements as Barriers to Food Environment Regulation for Public Health Nutrition: A Realist Review [PDF]
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]
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]
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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The international investment agreements (IIAs) are a strategic policy instrument that member countries could use to achieve win-win cooperation. Meanwhile, the extension of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) membership toward the Regional
Nathapornpan Piyaareekul Uttama
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The Economics of a Multilateral Investment Agreement [PDF]
This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement, expropriation leads to a joint reaction by all MNEs. Switching
Jiahua Che, Gerald Willmann
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Back to sovereignty? Policy space in investor-State dispute settlement
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
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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Afghanistan Investment Policy Analysis
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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Why Indonesia Should Keep Joining in Trade and Investment Agreements?
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
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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