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The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to … the GATS for different organisational settings - from government monopolies to regulated and/or subsidized private … provision - that may be used by WTO Members to meet typical public service objectives. It turns out that virtually all forms of …
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The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to … the GATS for different organisational settings - from government monopolies to regulated and/or subsidized private … provision - that may be used by WTO Members to meet typical public service objectives. It turns out that virtually all forms of …
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Digitally deliverable services play a growing role in export-driven production in the FEALAC region, but digitally deliverable services from Latin America are used only to a limited extent by producers in Asia, and vice versa. However, this disguises the fast growth in Latin American-Asian...
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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...
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The last 30 years in the history of international investment law witnessed the emergence of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) as the definitive method for the resolution of investment disputes, and the expanding role of the investor in the same. Investment dispute settlement has become...
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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...
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An “ethics explosion” is emerging in the international investment arena in many different ways. Along with the EU’s strong desire to regulate the ethical aspects of adjudicators’ duties in its latest generation of IIAs, whether already in force or still under negotiation, a growing...
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As a result of the meeting in New York of UNCITRAL Working Group III, states suggested focusing on a second workstream on structural reform options that would cover issues relating to, inter alia, amendments to the existing ISDS process and the establishment and composition of a Multilateral...
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Notorious for its non-participation in the international system of investment protections, Brazil is one of the most popular destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI) around the world. But unlike most countries, including its neighbours in Latin America, Brazil is neither party to any...
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