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Sovereign Wealth Funds In The Making - Assessing The Economic Feasibility And Regulatory Strategies, Julien Chaisse
Sovereign Wealth Funds In The Making - Assessing The Economic Feasibility And Regulatory Strategies, Julien Chaisse
Julien Chaisse
The recent emergence of SWFs as active and important players in international financial markets has raised a host of questions about their likely effect on markets and states. This trend is further reinforced in 2010/2011 by the fact that despite the fears and turbulences that spread all over the world in reason of the global economic and financial crisis, SWFs have blatantly retained their influence. SWFs create a regulatory and theoretical challenge because they serve two masters with very different agendas. This article is the first to explore the challenges governments face when they wish to set up a SWF. …
Legal Nature Of The Traded Units Under The Emissions Trading Systems And Its Implication To The Relationship Between Emissions Trading And The Wto, Wen-Chen Shih Dr
Legal Nature Of The Traded Units Under The Emissions Trading Systems And Its Implication To The Relationship Between Emissions Trading And The Wto, Wen-Chen Shih Dr
Wen-chen Shih Dr
With regard to the relationship between emissions trading and the WTO, most existing literature focuses on the emissions trading system under the Kyoto Protocol without analysing existing or forthcoming domestic or regional emissions trading systems. Furthermore, these analyses also did not differentiate between different types of emissions trading systems, in particular the possible different legal nature of various types of the ‘units’ that are being traded under different types of emissions trading system. Is this an over-simplified approach in terms of analysing the relationship between emissions trading and the WTO? This is the main research question of this article. By …
International Initiatives That Facilitate Global Mobility In Higher Education, Laurel S. Terry
International Initiatives That Facilitate Global Mobility In Higher Education, Laurel S. Terry
Laurel S. Terry
This article identifies a number of international initiatives that have contributed to, reflect, or facilitate global higher education mobility. The article begins by presenting statistics about global higher education mobility. The sections that follow address a number of “hard law” and “soft law” international initiatives that promote such mobility. The initiatives discussed in the article include, inter alia, European Union initiatives, the Bologna Process which led to the creation of the European Higher Education Area, and higher education initiatives of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and …