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The Hindu | 8-Jan-2013
The changing dynamic of the global economy has led to a transformation in the role of developing countries as both capital importing and exporting States. There is an urgent need to redefine the global BIT regime to reflect this changing paradigm.
Business Reporter | 3-Jan-2013
After 3 years and 8 months, Zimbabwe has admitted financial liability on illegal farm invasions and forthwith issued a statement that they are ceasing all farm invasions on properties protected by bilateral investment treaties.
keywords:
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Zimbabwe
Public Citizen | 28-Dec-2012
U.S.-based Renco Group Inc. is trying to use the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to evade justice.
| 24-Dec-2012
Recent disputes, including the GMR-Maldives government row and the clash between foreign telecom firms Telenor, Sistema, Etisalat and Vodafone and the Indian government, have exposed India’s vulnerable position in investment agreements. While the foreign telecom companies can use a potent weapon - the ’investment protection’ clause in bilateral treaties - against India, GMR cannot do the same with Maldives.
keywords:
ICSID ,
India ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Maldives ,
telecommunications
| 23-Dec-2012
The World Bank’s International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes has handed down a ruling against the Ecuadorian government, finding that it “unlawfully expropriated” U.S. firm Burlington Resources’ investments in two oil blocks.
keywords:
corporate interests ,
Ecuador ,
energy ,
ICSID ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
natural resources ,
US
AJE | 8-Dec-2012
Al Jazeera ask if the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations have rendered democratic decision-making irrelevant.
South Centre | 6-Dec-2012
Developing countries that have signed BITs should start a process of review and eventual renegotiation or denunciation, writes Carlos Correa
IDN | 6-Dec-2012
While multinational corporations such as Philip Morris dispose of the financial means to pay for elite law advice, developing countries don’t.
keywords:
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Infojustice.org | 3-Dec-2012
Australia’s new stance against investor-State arbitration may do nothing to prevent claims being brought in the future.
keywords:
Australia ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
| 29-Nov-2012
Argentina faces 42 claims at the World Bank’s ICSID in which the plaintiffs are demanding compensations for almost 65 billion dollars, revealed Eduardo Barcesat legal advisor to the Argentine Treasury and one of several lawyers who has defended the country in those litigations.
