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Sustaining The Growth Of Mobile Money Services In Developing Nations: Lessons From Overregulation In The United States, Amanda B. Kernan
Sustaining The Growth Of Mobile Money Services In Developing Nations: Lessons From Overregulation In The United States, Amanda B. Kernan
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Billions of people around the world are excluded from the formal financial system and forced to store, transfer, and borrow money by using inefficient and unsafe methods. The recent introduction of mobile money programs in developing countries is revolutionizing financial inclusion by allowing users to store and transfer money on their mobile phones, thereby eliminating the need to access a bank or an internet connection. Unfortunately, fears that these programs will be used to launder money and finance terrorism have led the international community to develop and implement restrictive anti-money laundering policies that will likely impede the growth and accessibility …
Enhancing The Legitimacy Of The World Trade Organization, Andrea Greisberger
Enhancing The Legitimacy Of The World Trade Organization, Andrea Greisberger
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has faced harsh criticism from developing nations in recent years. Many developing nations feel that the promises they received when they joined the WTO have not been fulfilled. These nations feel that wealthy, industrialized nations like the United States and the members of the European Union are the only ones that have benefited from the organization. Moreover, they feel that these developed nations have benefited at their expense through the WTO's dispute settlement process. Many improvements to the WTO have been proposed. However, the one that seems the most able to help developing nations, the …
International Lending: The Case For Developing Nations, Harold G. Maier
International Lending: The Case For Developing Nations, Harold G. Maier
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
As is peculiarly appropriate for any conference dealing with a rapidly developing and constantly changing area of international economic activity, both the speakers and the participants at this meeting raised more questions than were answered. A principal theme, illustrated by the papers reproduced here, was the need for careful consideration of the problem--legal and commercial-- involved in international lending on the basis of specific information concerning its effect, its promise and the needs involved. Generalizations concerning activities in developing countries are increasingly ineffective as guides to government or business policy or academic inquiry. Recent events in the Middle East confirm …
Changes In The Investment Climate In Developing Nations, Jack Baranson
Changes In The Investment Climate In Developing Nations, Jack Baranson
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The changes of the 1960's point to two important trends in the 1970's--the continuing erosion of the foreign investment base and an expanding drive toward technological self-reliance. These tendencies have important implications for future operational modes of multinational corporations and for further adjustments in the world economy. First, developing countries will continue their efforts to eliminate foreign ownership and control of their industries and their preference for licensing arrangements and management services will continue to erode the foreign investment base. Secondly, developing countries will not be satisfied with the transfer of manufacturing techniques and related management systems. They will want …