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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Bilateral investment treaties"”.
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An examination of whether the protection of Investment Act represents a successful alternative to bilateral investment treaties
… Africa's recently promulgated Protection of Investment Act represents a viable alternative to the bilateral investment treaty regime. In undertaking this examination, the bilateral investment treaty regime which preceded the Protection of Investment Act was first reviewed and some of the …
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International Arbitration - protection of foreign direct investments and foreign investment dispute settlement under ICSID and the bilateral investment treaties
… under the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in connection with protection mechanism of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). It shall analyse the achievements of ICSID and BITs and their influence of foreign direct investments, investors and the host country. …
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The Role of Foreign Patents in US Firms’ Patent Portfolios
… to foreign sales (free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties) to identify the effect of foreign sales on the propensity to foreign patent. I find firms with a larger percentage of foreign sales have a higher propensity to foreign patent. Additional analysis reveals US firms have …
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The development of international investment law : lessons from the OECD MAI negotiations and their application to a possible multilateral agreement on investment
… the international regulation of foreign direct investment (FDI). The international legal framework of investment encompasses numerous binding or non-binding legal instruments, including customary international law, bilateral investment treaties, and international organizations' decisions and …
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What are the implications of South Africa's Protection of Investment Act on the SADC regions' aims to harmonise investment policy within the region, and how can possible inconsistencies and challenges be overcome?
… the country did not attract significant foreign investment due to the economic sanctions imposed by the international community in response to the crimes of apartheid. Between 1993 and 1995, the newly elected democratic government of South Africa concluded its first bilateral investment …
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Legal challenges of cross-border insolvencies in sub-saharan Africa with reference to Tanzania and Kenya: a framework for legislation and policies
… given the ever-growing multinational trade and investment. The study focuses on the risk of failure of SSA legislative processes to properly address the potential challenges of cross-border insolvencies in a manner that is sensitive to the local contexts and which provides a balance with …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment in MENA region.
… empirically the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The empirical analysis of this thesis conducted at three different levels, intra-regional level, country-level and firm-level. Chapter five investigates FDI …
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Preferential trade and investment agreements and engagement between the trade and investment law regimes
… thesis explores engagement between the trade and investment law regimes and the extent to which this is being driven by Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements. It provides an empirical analysis of engagement between the two regimes using data from 40 PTIAs and 40 Bilateral Investment …
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TOWARDS A SINGLE INVESTMENT AREA IN THE EAST AFRICAN REGION: FRAMEWORK, PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
… As an offshoot of this integration process, investment inflows are typically expected to increase in the region and thus the member countries have improved opportunities to respond to this global phenomenon.<br/><br/>Attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) into a country is considered as …
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Legal Challenges of Cross-Border Insolvencies in Sub-Saharan Africa with Reference to Tanzania and Kenya: A Framework for Legislation and Policies
… given the ever-growing multinational trade and investment. The study focuses on the risk of failure of SSA legislative processes to properly address the potential challenges of cross-border insolvencies in a manner that is sensitive to the local contexts and which provides a balance with …
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THREE ESSAYS ON LENDING AND CORPORATE DEBT STRUCTURE
… by foreign lenders from countries covered by bilateral investment treaties (BITs) to loans from non-covered countries, we isolate and quantify the impact of strengthening property rights against government expropriation on loans. We find that stronger property rights lead to a lower cost of …
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Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo
… of investor-state arbitration provisions in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), especially its independent prosecutor provision. For all their differences, investor-state arbitration provisions and the ICC share three …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment and its relationship to economic growth
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. This dissertation first embarks on a wide ranging review of theories of variables; …
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The development of South African investment protection law – legal protection of foreign investments under the Protection of Investment Act no. 22 of 2015 with special regard to indirect expropriation
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) constitutes an important tool regarding the generation of capital inflow and economic growth and development, particularly for developing countires. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) constitute the prevalent global mechanism in respect of the protection of FDI. …
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Applying principles of administrative law to investor-state treaty arbitrations
… of the administrative actions of a host state in investment arbitration. This research examines the extent to which the principles of domestic administrative law can be used as a legal reference for investment arbitrators to address and resolve the legal issues presented in regulatory disputes …
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Solutions to investor-state dispute settlement : Republic of South Africa vis-à-vis Australia
… largely due to the differing levels of outward investments that are present in these categories of countries. The paper recommends, inter alia, that, unlike developed countries, developing countries and least-developed countries should abrogate the conventional ISDS regime and only retain it in …