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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Investment treaties"”.
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Towards a New Energy Charter: Re-imagining International Investment Treaties for a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition
… a strong case for a multilateral treaty with investment protection provisions that applies specifically to the energy sector. However, in order to adequately address the challenges ahead, the shift towards renewable energy requires a transformation of the energy sector towards a decentralised …
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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 state as a shareholder in cases of reflective loss deriving from commercial activities in international investment arbitration
… position of state shareholders in International Investment Arbitration in case of shareholders' claims for reflective loss deriving from commercial investments. The reflective loss principle refers to direct claims brought by shareholders who have suffered a reduction in their shares' value due …
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The Role of Foreign Patents in US Firms’ Patent Portfolios
… 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 a higher …
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Perking-up EU actorness through sustainability in foreign direct investments.
… EU legal order, the law of foreign direct investment has evolved from a scattered and limited implied power to an exclusive competence, expressly provided for in the Treaty. International investment law for its part has endured in the last years great criticism due to severely suspected …
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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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The interaction between public procurement policies and international investment agreements: challenges and legal implications in Kenya and South Africa
Background and context: International investment agreements refer to ‘agreements regarding a State’s treatment of investments made by individuals or companies from another State.’13 According to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), these may be bilateral such 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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Rage against the regime: Policy responses to international investment arbitration
… literature is the notion that the international investment regime is experiencing backlash. At the center of this backlash is the belief that international investment treaties unduly restrain states’ ability to regulate in the public interest, most notably by allowing foreign investors to file …
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Proteção internacional ao investimento e propriedade intelectual: impacto sobre políticas de saúde e acesso a medicamentos
… the eventual impacts that international investment treaties imposes on the capacity of States to implement key public policies to ensure the Right to Health and access to medicines. It aims to understand, more specifically, the risks that certain clauses part of these agreements carries …
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Oil and gas contracts: a law in context analysis using Nigeria as a case study
… natural resources is to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing states with the anticipation that such investment will put them on the centre stage of global economics and lead to an improvement in research and technology transfer that would sustain economic growth and …
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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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Appropriate comparator in national treatment under international investment law : relevance of GATT/WTO, EU and international human rights jurisprudences
… state of the national treatment provision in the investment treaties has provided limited guidance for the tribunals for interpretation. As a result, there were inconsistencies in the interpretation of national treatment, in particular the question of likeness. This thesis aims to develop the …
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The legal aspects of international labour migration: a study of national and international legal instruments pertinent to migrant workers in selected Western European countries.
… with the UN Secretariat. The provisions of these treaties are compared with the provisions of investment treaties which have also been concluded between the same parties, and with the ILO model agreement on temporary migration for employment. Chapter Five explores the relations between the …
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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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Trade Secrets and International Investment Law
… by bringing claims against those states under investment promotion and protection treaties. While the protection of trade secrets has been noted by commentators, there is yet to be a detailed analysis of the protection of trade secrets under international investment law. To carry out that …
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