China and India will have to radically transform their electric power systems in order to decouple economic growth from unsustainable resource consumption. While the majority of transition literature has focused on the diverse socio-technical factors that could enable such a transformation, more...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prominently stress the importance of foreign investment for sustainable development. Yet, International Investment Agreements (IIAs) are frequently perceived to impede the regulatory powers of host states to adopt the sustainability policies necessary...

An increasing services orientation is likely to be a key feature of the economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China, and India (collectively referred to as "ACI") over the medium-term. This paper aims to present a compendium of relevant data on...

An increasing services orientation is likely to be a key feature of the economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China, and India (collectively referred to as "ACI") over the medium-term. This paper aims to present a compendium of relevant data on...

An environmental policy has been created which requires the polluter to bear the costs and responsibility of the pollution and the externalities that are proximate in cause of the pollution. This is the Polluter Pays Principle. In a purely free market one only faces their private costs; however...

An increasing services orientation is likely to be a key feature of the economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China, and India (collectively referred to as 'ACI') over the medium-term. This paper aims to present a compendium of relevant data on...

There has been an exponential growth in International Investment Agreements (IIAs), signed by countries to protect foreign investments, in last two decades. These agreements provide broad standards of treatment and give private investors the right to challenge allegedly treaty-inconsistent...

Commencing in the 1990s, India signed a number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), however, after a spate of adverse investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), India has recently denounced all its erstwhile investment treaties. New investment treaties now need to be negotiated on the basis...

This paper provides the first ever-detailed analysis of Non Precluded Measures (NPM) provisions in India’s International Investment Agreements (IIAs) from the perspective of India’s regulatory power as a host nation. It critically analyses NPM provisions in 57 Indian IIAs by studying the...