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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...
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This article discusses the place of both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and … between the WTO and the ECT into account by providing extensive guidelines on incorporation of WTO rules into the Treaty. This … uncertainties remain. Moreover, developments in the past two decades, such as changes in membership to both the ECT and WTO …
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Services liberalisation has gradually become very important for growth in developed and less-developed countries alike and can, as such, be seen as development prospects for sub-Saharan Africa where numerous economic integration attempts are stories of repeated failures. Despite the abundant...
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finalizing the Doha Development Agenda, increased heterogeneity of interests within the World Trade Organization (WTO) puts into … question its ability to achieve its central objective of freer trade. While rethinking internally the future of the WTO, it …
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The United States stood virtually alone when it enacted its first antitrust statute in 1890. Today, almost all nations have adopted competition laws (the term used in most other nations), and US antitrust agencies interact with foreign enforc-ers on a daily basis. This globalization of antitrust...
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Given the rapid proliferation of PTAs the aim of this text is to assess the impact of PTAs on excluded countries, with special reference to potential EU-India FTA. Such an analysis helps to identify the scope and impact of PTAs on excluded countries. The article will attempt to determine and...
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unilateral and regional. In addition, the GATT/WTO has been important in encouraging economies to open up more and to commit to …
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How and why do global trade rules evolve? When the EU revised the investment chapter of its recent trade deal with Canada it was widely believed that the amendments were motivated by concern over the design of another agreement: the yet-to-be-completed Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
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There is vast literature on both harmonization and globalization. Much of the extensive commentary, at least in the United States, is outward looking. It focuses on how other countries have changed, or should change, their laws and legal culture to more fully participate in the global economy...
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