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How to Kill a BIT and Not Die Trying : Legal and Political Challenges of Denouncing or Renegotiating Bilateral Investment Treaties
Lavopa, Federico - 2012
The backlash against the expansive interpretation of key disciplines of international investment law by arbitral tribunals has prompted a host of strategies, implemented mostly by developing countries, aimed at walking away from the system. These range from denouncing the ICSID Convention and...
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Systemic Integration and International Investment Law – Some Practical Reflections
Kalderimis, Daniel - 2012
This paper takes an empirical, practical approach to test the proposition that systemic integration leads to greater coherence of international law. It builds on work by Professor Campbell McLachlan and others that specific treaty-based regimes can be located in the broader context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104090
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Defining Development in WTO Law : The Legality and Parameters of Labour Rights Conditionality in the Generalised System of Preferences
O'Brien, Brynn - 2012
This paper argues that GSP labour rights conditionality is in conformity with WTO law. This hinges on the critical question of whether the realisation of labour standards can meet a ‘development need,' a term considered by the WTO Appellate Body report in the EC – Tariffs Preferences case,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104596
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Public Health Regulation : The Impact of Intersections between Trade & Investment Treaties in Asia
Hsu, Locknie - 2014
There has been an explosive growth of free trade agreements (FTAs) in recent years. The World Trade Report 2011 of the … World Trade Organization (WTO) shows Asian members to be among the most active in signing preferential trade agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065915
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The (Unnoticed?) Contradictory Overlapping of International and Domestic Rules on FDI : Getting the Legal Facts Right
Fernandez-Pons, Xavier; Torrent, Ramon - 2012
This intends to be a very “empirical” paper. We want to let the facts (legal facts, but facts nevertheless) speak by themselves. We simply present them in an organized way and limit to the minimum our own comments. The overall objective is to show, “by getting the legal facts right”,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168424
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Culture Clash : Investor’s Rights v. Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law & Arbitration
Vadi, Valentina - 2014
This study aims to explore the ‘clash of cultures’ between international investment law and international cultural law. When countries pursue economic growth, their policy makers may have an incentive to lower cultural standards to promote economic activities. If states nonetheless maintain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168582
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Barriers to global capital allocation
Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021
benchmark calibration, we estimate that the capital misallocation induced by these barriers reduces World GDP by 7%, compared to …-country inequality: the standard deviation of log capital per employee is 80% higher than it would be in a world without barriers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514947
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A new index of globalization : measuring impacts of integration on economic growth and income inequality
Huh, Hyeon-seung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2019
The purpose of this study is twofold. The first is to develop a new composite index of globalization based on data on … effects of globalization on economic growth and income inequality. The index comprises 25 indicators that represent the key … integration in the construction of the globalization index. The results show that although globalization promotes economic growth …
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The EU's Open Strategic Autonomy from a central banking perspective : challenges to the monetary policy landscape from a changing geopolitical environment
2023
Over the past decade, geopolitical developments - and the policy responses to these by major economies around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248552
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International technology race, innovation policy and employment in EU countries
Welfens, Paul J. J. - In: Bewältigung des ökonomischen Wandels : Entwicklungen …, (pp. 121-136). 1997
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