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Dealing with Treaty Shopping Across the Tax, Trade, and Investment Regimes

AbstractThe bilateral governance of a specific cross-border policy issue creates incentives for economic actors from less favoured countries to take advantage of rules that apply to actors from more favoured countries. This is the case across the international tax, trade, and investment regimes: In tax and investment regimes, multinational enterprises ...
openaire   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges and solutions for global plastic governance. [PDF]

Innovation (Camb)
Wu W, Shah F, Ahmad A, Ma C, Shun Chan FK, Zou G.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons learnt from international environmental agreements for the Stockholm + 50 Conference: celebrating 20 Years of INEA. [PDF]

Int Environ Agreem, 2022
Gupta J, Vegelin C, Pouw N.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Game over: dissecting the overlooked health harms of modern sports. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Irfan B, Venugopal K, Rehman A, Latif R, Abu Shammala A, Sirvent RD.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT, ERANDI BARROSO OLMEDO, FRITZ‐JULIUS GRAFE   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on major legal issues and solutions in pandemic treaty negotiations. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Chen W.
europepmc   +1 more source

South Africa's new bilateral investment treaty policy : a reasonable response to a flawed regime?

, 2014
In 2010 South Africa officially adopted a new Bilateral Investment Treaty Policy. The new policy brought to an end a policy review process that was initiated following an investor-State arbitration concerning legislation introduced in the South African ...
Steenkamp, Tania
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