Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational EnterprisesPeterson Institute, 2000 - 234 pages |
Contents
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Globalization Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment | 115 |
The MAI and the Developing Countries | 149 |
Where Does the Multilateral Investment Agenda Go from Here? | 169 |
APPENDICES | 185 |
Productivity and Wage Determination | 187 |
Is Foreign Direct Investment a Complement to Trade? | 193 |
References | 199 |
Index | 207 |
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Page 62 - Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade...
Page 28 - Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent a Party from adopting, maintaining or enforcing any measure otherwise consistent with this Chapter that it considers appropriate to ensure that investment activity in its territory is undertaken in a manner sensitive to environmental concerns.
Page 46 - ... to transfer technology, a production process or other proprietary knowledge to a person in its territory, except when the requirement is imposed or the commitment or undertaking is enforced by a court, administrative tribunal or competition authority to remedy an alleged violation of competition laws...
Page 56 - No Party may directly or indirectly nationalize or expropriate an investment of an investor of another Party in its territory or take a measure tantamount to nationalization or expropriation of such an investment ("expropriation...
Page 43 - Each Contracting Party shall accord to investors of another Contracting Party and to their investments, treatment no less favorable than the treatment it accords [in like circumstances] to its own investors and their investments with respect to the establishment, acquisition, expansion, operation, management, maintenance, use, enjoyment and sale or other disposition of investments
Page 46 - ... to restrict sales of goods or services in its territory that such investment produces or provides by relating such sales in any way to the volume or value of its exports or foreign exchange earnings...
Page 46 - ... to relate in any way the volume or value of imports to the volume or value . of exports or to the amount of foreign exchange inflows associated with such investment...
Page 7 - ... be a free-standing international treaty open to all OECD Members and the European Communities, and to accession by non-OECD Member countries.
Page 27 - A Contracting Party shall not expropriate or nationalise directly or indirectly an investment of an investor of the other Contracting Party or take any measures having equivalent effect (hereinafter referred to as expropriation") except: a) for a purpose which is in the public interest b) on a non-discriminatory basis, c) in accordance with due process of law, and d) accompanied by payment...
Page 40 - Provide a broad multilateral framework for international investment with high standards for the liberalization of investment regimes and investment protection and with effective dispute settlement procedures...