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International Investment Agreements: 'Inside and Outside Agreements'
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019International investment agreements (IIAs) are of great importance to investors, or at least they should be, to investors who want to be knowledgeable about how IIAs can protect against risks. Types of agreements that this article will look at are the following: 1. Bilateral investment treaties; 2. Bilateral Free trade agreements; 3. Regional free
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Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Monthly Review, 1998As we know, Marx did not develop an analysis of economic imperialism as it emerged after 1885, but he identified tendencies within nineteenth-century capital, which we recognize today as causes. We think of capital concentration and centralization, the externalization of markets and the falling tendency of the rate of profit as examples that would be ...
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The Investment Component in Trade Agreements
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017Most free trade agreements signed over the past two decades should more appropriately be called preferential trade and investment agreements (PTIA). Measured in words, investment provisions already occupy more space in the corpus of the 450 trade treaties notified to the World Trade Organization than any other issue area.
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Disability in EU trade and investment agreements
2020According to Article 10 TFEU, in defining and implementing its trade and investment policies and activities, the European Union (EU) shall aim, inter alia, to combat any discrimination based on disability. The opening statement of the new president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has further confirmed that the ‘Social Market Economy’, as ...
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China-ASEAN investment agreement negotiations
Frontiers of Law in China, 2006China and the ASEAN are negotiating to establish a free trade area and an investment agreement is an integral part of it. The ongoing investment agreement negotiations have achieved some basic consensus as to specific contents of the agreement. However, due to the procedural obstacles and substantive controversies, the negotiations have become stagnant.
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Do International Investment Agreements promote Foreign Direct Investment?
International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, 2011The main objective of this study is to empirically evaluate the influences of IIAs on FDI patterns in the developing countries. Our study primarily focuses on the effects of four types of international instruments: Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), the avoidance of Double Taxation Treaties (DTTs), Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) and World ...
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Foreign Investments and the Multilateral Agreement on Investments
2006The Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) was an ambitious undertaking by members of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to remove domestic controls over foreign direct investment (FDI). This significant initiative in rule-making for foreign investments did not include developing countries on grounds that open ...
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A Pacific Basin Investment Agreement
Asean Economic Bulletin, 1993Economic integration in the Pacific is usually discussed in the context of trade. However, the rapid growth of investment in the region suggests that capital flows could serve as an important integrating force. Investment policies in each of the region's economies have evolved separately with few bilateral investment treaties among the region's members
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The Rise of International Investment, Investment Agreements and Investment Disputes
2008Abstract To set the scene and provide the context for this volume, I would like to make three points: (1) foreign direct investment (FDI) has become the most important vehicle to bring goods and services to foreign markets and to integrate national production systems; (2) this process has been accompanied by the rapid rise of ...
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