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Preparing Legal Frameworks For Environmental Disasters: Practical Considerations For Host States, Brooke Guven, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson
Preparing Legal Frameworks For Environmental Disasters: Practical Considerations For Host States, Brooke Guven, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Projects in the extractives sector carry risks of lasting, and sometimes irreversible, damage to the environment. Nonetheless, these projects are important for accelerating the economic development of host countries. Governments seeking to mitigate the adverse effects of foreign investment often face pushback from investors that are unwilling to change their practices in order to avert environmental disaster. This report sets forth certain steps that host-governments can take during the pre-investment, operation, and enforcement phases of extractives projects to provide financial and other protection in the context of environmental disasters associated with private sector investments.
Upon comparative review of five Case …
Designing A Robust Tax System For Nigeria: Lessons From An International Perspective, Olukemi Tawoju
Designing A Robust Tax System For Nigeria: Lessons From An International Perspective, Olukemi Tawoju
LLM Theses
This thesis argues that Nigeria can adapt its tax system for better gain from investment and other taxation. It outlines the foundation for a good tax policy, and explores initiatives by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD and the United Nations (UN) regarding harmful tax practices and tax incentives. Their recommendations and those of scholars, conclude that tax incentives are ineffective in attracting foreign direct investment, may result in taxpayer abuse, and erode the revenue base of capital importing countries like Nigeria. Utilizing internationally accepted features on effective tax incentive design, examining the operation of the Nigerian tax …
China In Africa And The Law, Salvatore Mancuso
China In Africa And The Law, Salvatore Mancuso
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
This paper is based on the enormous amount of Chinese investments in Africa, with the objective of considering the legal aspects involved therein. Under international business law, commercial relations are usually ruled according to the law of the country hosting the investment.
This paper will examine the challenges presented by Chinese investments in Africa given that the systems of business law in Africa are generally out of date and enforcement mechanisms under Western rule of law standards are often far from the reality. This observation is accompanied by the fact that there is presently a wide movement towards legal integration …
The Enron V. Argentina Annulment Decision: Moving A Bishop Vertically In The Precarious Icsid Syste, Michael Wilson
The Enron V. Argentina Annulment Decision: Moving A Bishop Vertically In The Precarious Icsid Syste, Michael Wilson
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
No abstract provided.
Trade And Investment Treaties, The Rule Of Law, And Standards Of The Administration Of Justice, Alejandro M. Garro, Stephen J. Schnably, Pedro Martinez Fraga, David Abraham
Trade And Investment Treaties, The Rule Of Law, And Standards Of The Administration Of Justice, Alejandro M. Garro, Stephen J. Schnably, Pedro Martinez Fraga, David Abraham
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Ubs/Irs Settlement Agreement And Cayman Island Hedge Funds, Chris Horton
The Ubs/Irs Settlement Agreement And Cayman Island Hedge Funds, Chris Horton
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Opic, And The Retreat From Transparency, Blake Puckett
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Opic, And The Retreat From Transparency, Blake Puckett
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article argues that the current intersection of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is turning U.S. investment and aid policy in a direction that neither addresses corruption concerns, nor augments other U.S. foreign policy goals in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and perhaps more globally. The current regulatory system has caused OPIC to structure its investment projects in alternative forms that bypass anti-corruption regulations.W hile these alternatives serve to increase capital in developing economies, the distance they create between OPIC and the end-user fosters a lack of transparency and ultimately corruption. However, …
Foreign Direct Investment Success In Ireland: Can Poland Duplicate Ireland's Economic Success Based On Foreign Direct Investment Policies?, Michael Mikiciuk
Foreign Direct Investment Success In Ireland: Can Poland Duplicate Ireland's Economic Success Based On Foreign Direct Investment Policies?, Michael Mikiciuk
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
No abstract provided.
Perú'S New Investment Laws: Privatization And Foreign Investment Statutes, José Daniel Amado
Perú'S New Investment Laws: Privatization And Foreign Investment Statutes, José Daniel Amado
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Legal Status Of Foreign Investments In The East African Common Market, T. O. Elias -- Reviewer
The Legal Status Of Foreign Investments In The East African Common Market, T. O. Elias -- Reviewer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
One noticeable development in the field of International Economic Law during the last decade since the United Nations ushered in the new era of an economic world order has been the growing literature on the law of investments, especially in respect to developing economies. International Economic Law itself is a recent specialist off-shoot of general public international law, having been nurtured and popularized as a subject of separate university discipline in its own right within the last 30 years or so by Schwarzenberger among others. Notable, generally, among the specialized studies on international investments law are Worthley's Expropriation in Public …