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ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
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THE IDEA OF THE MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT COURT CREATION
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The Global Pesticide Complex: Infrastructure, Fragility and Frontiers of Agrarian Change
ABSTRACT Although most pesticides have long been on the market, the political economy surrounding their production, regulation and use has undergone considerable change, spurring renewed interest in the social sciences. The global pesticide complex (GPC) is an analytical device to understand the multidimensional nature of these changes. In this special
Marion Werner +3 more
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Abstract Research on business ecosystems has illuminated how ecosystems emerge, evolve, and transform, revealing ecosystem‐level dynamics and the central actors that orchestrate them. Yet, it is individual firms that continuously attempt to establish and shift the roles they play within ecosystems through the vision and choices of their strategic ...
Paolo Aversa +3 more
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Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property
Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
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Complementarity between multilateral lending and private flows to developing countries : some empirical results [PDF]
Despite the surge in private capital flows in the 1990s, lending by the multilateral development banks continues to be a significant source of external finance for low-income and lower-middle-income countries.
Ratha, Dilip
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This chapter examines how the multilateral discussion on a multilateral framework on Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) currently taking place at the World Trade Organization (WTO) differs from provisions on the same topic found in existing ...
Polanco, Rodrigo
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Abstract This article provides an overview of the patent landscape in relation to PGRFA‐based inventions involving naturally occurring (“native”) traits and related Digital Sequence Information/Genetic Sequence Data (DSI/GSD). In particular, it focuses on the potential of patent claims to limit others' uses of PGRFA and related DSI/GSD on which the ...
Claudio Chiarolla +5 more
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Corporate human rights obligations of investors in recent investment agreements: The progressive hardening process of CSR clauses. [PDF]
Francis Maïnkade B.
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International commitments on climate‐friendly investment liberalisation: A green straitjacket?
Abstract Meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement will require considerable capital mobilisation. International investment agreements (IIAs) govern and promote financial flows. However, their alignment with international climate objectives has, thus far, either been non‐existent or insufficient.
Stefanie Schacherer
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