This entry is concerned with the rise and fall of investment treaties and investor-state arbitration after the end of … the cold war. It provides a brief history of international investment law after the end of the cold war. Initially this is … a story of the growing desirability of a high degree of investment protection, followed by several waves of backlash in …

Gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), also called "investment", is defined as the acquisition of produced assets …