investment | bilateral investment treaties
30-May-2016
First Post
If trade has to drive for employment and economic growth, it needs a better management and understanding by the government. Knee-jerk reactions cannot be the basis for such agreements.
30-May-2016
The Nation
ASEAN and Hong Kong are set to wrap up their free-trade agreement negotiations, with the aim of promoting trade, services and investment between the two sides.
30-May-2016
The Economic Times
India has written to 47 countries to nullify the existing bilateral investment agreements and ink fresh treaties that will make it mandatory for foreign investors to exhaust local judicial remedies before seeking arbitration.
29-May-2016
IISD
Results from an IISD expert meeting held in Montreux, Switzerland, May 23–24, 2016.
27-May-2016
IISD
The IIA universe remains full of surprises. The examples presented here are just some of the otherwise hidden consistency trends we came across during our research.
25-May-2016
CCSI
China’s approach to international investment agreements (IIAs) is evolving, namely that China is adapting to prevailing international investment-law standards.
24-May-2016
TNI
The Philippines has a web of investment treaties which severely constrain the government's ability to regulate or close polluting mines, a legal straitjacket that will become even tighter if the EU–Philippines Free Trade Agreement and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) proceed
23-May-2016
Bordelex
EU member states are expected to give the green light to negotiations to upgrade a fifteen-year-old free trade agreement between the EU and Mexico.
12-May-2016
Lexology
In the midst of various events, which sent shockwaves through the South African economy, the Protection of Investment Act was enacted on 15 December 2015.
10-May-2016
Khaleej Times
Agreement calls for boosting cooperation in trade, industry, agriculture, transport, tourism and investment.