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In Search of a Model Investment Law for Africa

Yelpaala, Kojo - 2010

The new Model Investment Law For Africa is designed to improve the legal infrastructure for investment in Africa …. Investment legislation is not a new phenomenon in Africa. The experience with investment legislation dates back to the early 1940 …? Investment in Africa has been feeble even as the governments have progressively liberalized their investment policies and …

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The Implications of China's Ascendancy for Africa

Besada, Hany - 2008

China's extraordinary level of interest in Africa - in particular, its economic engagement with perceived repressive regimes … - African leaders view China's entry as a means of pulling Africa onto the path of globalization. It is thus important that …China's spectacular economic progress has led some security analysts and policy makers in the North and the South to …

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The Impact of Chinese Trade and Investment in Africa on the African Tax Base – More Costs Than Benefits?

Titus, Afton - 2021

doing, benefit fully and responsibly from China’s interest in Africa …This paper examines the investments made by China in key African countries and analyses the effects of such investment … measures are. The risks identified in this study will be evaluated against the actual or potential benefits arising from China …

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More stringent BITs, less ambiguous effects on FDI? : Not a Bit!

Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010

We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...

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Do trade and investment agreements lead to more FDI? : Accounting for key provisions inside the black box

Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010

The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as "black boxes", despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...

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Treaty Shopping beim Investorenschutz – eine Erwiderung

Klodt, Henning; Lang, Stefanie - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 95 (2015) 8, pp. 570-571

Im Juliheft 2015 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz von Henning Klodt und Stefanie Lang zum Treaty Shopping. Sebastian Dullien weist auf eine seiner Auffassung nach fehlerhafte Darstellung des bilateralen Investitionsschutzabkommens zwischen Deutschland und Pakistan aus dem...

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Treaty Shopping beim Investorenschutz : eine Replik

Dullien, Sebastian - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 95 (2015) 8, pp. 569-570

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Political risk guarantees and capital flows : the role of bilateral investment treaties

Mina, Wasseem - 2015

In this paper the author empirically examines whether the influence of bilateral investment treaties' political risk guarantees extends to other types of capital flows - FDI, private debt, public debt and portfolio equity. The paper uses panel data on middle and low income countries during the...

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Political risk guarantees and capital flows : the role of bilateral investment treaties

Mina, Wasseem - 2015

This paper examines the influence of political risk guarantees of bilateral investment treaties on debt and equity flows using panel data on middle income countries for the period 1984-2011. Adopting system GMM methodology, the paper empirically finds that ratified bilateral investment treaties...

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Institutional reforms debate and FDI flows to MENA region : does one 'best' fit all?

Mina, Wasseem Michel - 2011

examines it in the context of FDI flows to the Middle East and Northern Africa region (MENA).Using panel data on 11 MENA …

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