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The heterogeneous effects of China's accession to the world trade organization
Jung, Benjamin - 2020
China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was a massive boostfor the multilateral trading system …
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UNCTAD's Roadmap for IIA Reform of Investment Dispute Settlement
Weber, Joerg - 2020
International investment law is undergoing a time of reflection, review and revision. Increasing dissatisfaction with the functioning of the current system that governs the protection of international investment and the wish to ensure that investment is channelled towards sustainable development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855101
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Dispute Settlement Over Exchange Measures Affecting Trade and Investments : The Overlapping Jurisdictions of the IMF, WTO, and the ICSID
Viterbo, Annamaria - 2014
. Coherence, consistency and predictability of international law rules are particularly relevant in a global world and market … for exchange controls and restrictions which affect the functioning of the international monetary system and the world of … international system as envisioned after World War II and of the various types of exchange measures, this paper will first analyze …
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A Compromise to Advance the Trade Agenda : Purge Negotiations of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Ikenson, Daniel J. - 2014
; anti-globalization activists sparing the developing world from development — has grown into a populist backlash against the …. The nascent TTIP negotiations have been smeared with a similar taint.Characterizations of the TPP as a scheme to boost the … concerns about those negotiations, splinter the opposition to liberalization, and pave the way for freer trade …
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Investment Treaties and the Globalisation of State Capitalism : Opportunities and Constraints for Host States
Skovgaard Poulsen, Lauge N. - 2012
The growing stock of foreign investments by sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises poses regulatory challenges to the international investment regime. With arbitrators seemingly keen on expanding the jurisdictional scope of investment treaty arbitration to cover a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106999
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The Evolution of Substantive Investment Protections in Recent Trade and Investment Treaties
Titi, Catharine - 2020
Over the years, the substantive content of international investment agreements (IIAs) has shifted to reflect political change and to respond to lessons learnt in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). With a focus on eight IIAs, selected with a view to geographical representativeness, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850942
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The Balance between Investor Protection and the Right to Regulate in Investment Treaties : A Scoping Paper
Gaukrodger, David - 2018
This scoping paper examines the balance between investor protection and the right to regulate in investment treaties and investment treaty policy. It notes the growing trend to analyse the impact of particular treaty rules rather than treaties as a whole. It also points to the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924083
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The future of investment treaties - possible directions
Gaukrodger, David - 2021
As our societies face new challenges and make new demands from policies addressing international investment, there is a new urgency to profoundly reconsider treaties addressing investment. This paper was prepared originally as background for initial inter-governmental and public discussions at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630277
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The legal framework applicable to joint interpretive agreements of investment treaties
Gaukrodger, David - 2016
around the world. But while a significant number of major recent treaties contain such express provisions, most investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582193
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State-to-state dispute settlement and the interpretation of investment treaties
Gaukrodger, David - 2016
Many governments have expressed concerns about the uncertainty linked to the perceived inconsistency of treaty interpretation in Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). An OECD-hosted intergovernmental investment roundtable has been considering a range of tools through which governments can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582200