The (Political) Economics of Bilateral Investment Treaties—The Unique Trajectory of Brazil
Brazil, after signing several traditional Bilateral Investment Treaties without ratifying them, recently shifted towards a different type of bilateral investment agreement, i.e., Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Agreements.
Christian Bellak, Markus Leibrecht
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Trade Policy and Health: Adding Retrospective Studies to the Research Agenda; Comment on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?” [PDF]
Prospective studies of the potential health consequences of trade and investment treaties, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are critical. These studies can make visible to trade policy-makers the potential negative impacts associated to such ...
Chantal Blouin
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Signing Away The Future: How trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries undermine development [PDF]
The quiet advance of trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries threatens to deny developing countries a favourable foothold in the global economy.
Jones, Emily
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The State-Owned Entities as Investors: The International Legal Framework
In this article, the author examines the notion of state-owned entities in the practice of international organisations, and the different approaches to the extension of investor status to state-owned entities under international investment agreements. As
N. S. Andreeva
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International Environmental Agreements with mixed strategies and investment [PDF]
Abstract We modify a canonical participation game used to study International Environmental Agreements (IEA), considering both mixed and pure strategies at the participation stage, and including a prior cost-reducing investment stage. The use of mixed strategies at the participation stage reverses a familiar result and also reverses the policy ...
Hong, Fuhai, Karp, Larry
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ABSTRACT Background The Standards for Psychosocial Care for Children with Cancer and Their Families guide the provision of comprehensive psychosocial care. Parallel to research characterizing implementation of the Standards from the perspective of providers, this study examines implementation of the Standards from the perspective of parents of youth ...
Emily M. Pariseau +8 more
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Investment Discrimination and the Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements [PDF]
The proliferation of bilateral and regional trade agreements has arguably been the main change to the international trading system since the end of the Uruguay Round in the mid- 1990s.
Baccini, Leonardo, Duer, Andreas
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Responsible Business Conduct in the European Union’s Investment Policy
This paper aims to characterize the role of responsible business conduct (RBC)/corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the European Union’s (EU) common investment policy.
Janina Witkowska
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Respondent Status and Allocation of International Responsibility under EU Investment Agreements
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(3), 847-860 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Setting the scene. - II. Analysis of the legal framework set out in EU investment agree-ments. - III.
Luca Pantaleo
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ABSTRACT Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a frequent and serious complication in children receiving cancer therapy. Standardizing FN management across Asia is challenging due to variable healthcare infrastructure, diagnostic capacity, and infection patterns; however, it could improve resource use and patient outcomes.
Joliza Patricia Cañeba +29 more
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