ISDS Case Map
aid
India is reconsidering its financial aid to the Maldives after the island nation implemented a free trade agreement with China, leading to potential revenue losses.
African countries are regularly offered Free Trade Agreements by the world’s major economic powers. The balance of power is so unequal that they seem forever condemned to be the big losers.
Highlights from the workshop organised in Marrakesh by Attac Maroc, bilaterals.org, CADTM Africa, GRAIN and the Tunisian Observatory of Economy.
US senators argue that abolishing special economic zones known as ZEDEs would violate the provisions of CAFTA-DR, including the provision ensuring “fair and equitable treatment and full protection and security.”
The new resource extraction regime continued to consolidate through the approval of new development plans, new standards, and the signing of international investment agreements.
For developing countries, governing foreign direct investment through IIAs and ISDS corresponds to a policy model discredited by years of social and economic failures.
Where PPP projects turn sour, governments could be exposed to arbitration claims under applicable investment treaties.
The European Union could cut development aid to East African countries that have refused to enter its trade agreement.
The Ecuadorean government is being forced to use money that could go toward relief efforts to instead pay off a multinational oil company.
ACP–EU relations have been in existence for quite a while but what great gains has it achieved, for at least one of its small islands member in the Pacific, Palau, asks its former Vice President, Sandra Pierantozzi.
