investment | bilateral investment treaties
11-Feb-2015
Bloomberg
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is exhorting the US to quickly complete a treaty with China to open the long-sheltered market of the world’s most populous nation to American banks and other firms.
9-Feb-2015
S2B Network
The Seattle to Brussels Network call upon the European Commission not to push through with the negotiations for an investment treaty with Myanmar as it will not help but hurt democratic transition.
6-Feb-2015
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Advocates of a transatlantic investment treaty should be careful not to overstate their case and play the “China-card” as a core argument for allowing US investors to side-track EU courts.
6-Feb-2015
Responsible Investor
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is convening a meeting later this month in a bid to make sure that sustainability is embedded in the global country-level ‘International Investment Agreement’ (IIA) regime for cross-border investment.
6-Feb-2015
METI/MOFA
Tokyo announces the signing of a bilateral investment treaty with Kiev, which it highlights as opening Ukraine farmland and mineral resources to Japanese investors.
5-Feb-2015
Business Today
Ssomething is brewing between the two countries on the issue of intellectual property rights.
3-Feb-2015
Youtube
Professor Stiglitz addressing TPP negotiators in New York in January 2015.
29-Jan-2015
Global Research
It’s official: India and the US will resume negotiations on a high-standard bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
29-Jan-2015
TNI
This paper shows how (the threat of) lawsuits taken to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and other fora, using Dutch BITs, have effectively blocked policymaking in the public interest for development in host countries.
25-Jan-2015
PTI
India and US on Sunday decided to resume talks on bilateral investment treaty during discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama.