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Environmental Concerns in International Investment Agreements: A Survey

Gordon, Kathryn; Pohl, Joachim - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2011

debate in this policy area, the present survey establishes a statistical portrait of governments’ investment treaty writing … population. The survey provides a statistical portrait of the extent, kind and frequency of treaty language referring to …

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Defining and Measuring Green FDI: An Exploratory Review of Existing Work and Evidence

Golub, Stephen S.; Kauffmann, Céline; Yeres, Philip - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2011

This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify investment policy restrictions to green FDI. It...

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China Investment Policy: An Update

Davies, Ken - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013

This working paper examines China’s investment policy since the publication of the 2008 OECD Investment Policy Review of China. China remains the largest recipient of FDI among developing countries and FDI continues to play a disproportionately large role in promoting China’s trade,...

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Dispute Settlement Provisions in International Investment Agreements: A Large Sample Survey

Pohl, Joachim; Mashigo, Kekeletso; Nohen, Alexis - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2012

survey of a large sample of 1,660 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) identifies the main parameters of ISDS regulation in … practice. The survey finds among other things that many countries define the procedural framework thinly compared to advanced … treaties offer foreign investors a range of procedural choices, such as a choice between arbitration fora.<p> The survey also …

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Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss: Insights from Advanced Systems of Corporate Law

Gaukrodger, David - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2014

Corporate law in advanced domestic legal systems on the one hand, and typical treaties for the protection of foreign investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally bar shareholders from claiming for reflective loss...

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Lessons from Investment Policy Reform in Korea

Nicolas, Françoise; Thomsen, Stephen; Bang, Mi-Hyun - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013

As more and more countries seek to liberalise their foreign investment regimes to attract global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), an essential question for policy-makers is no longer just what to reform but also how to reform. How is a reformist government to sell the idea of reform to...

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Investor-State Dispute Settlement: A Scoping Paper for the Investment Policy Community

Gaukrodger, David; Gordon, Kathryn - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2012

findings from a statistical survey of ISDS provisions in 1,660 bilateral investment treaties. Public comment on this paper …

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Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims: Analysis of Treaty Practice

Gaukrodger, David - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2014

Advanced systems of domestic corporate law generally apply a “no reflective loss” principle to shareholder claims. Shareholder claims are permitted for direct injury to shareholder rights (such as voting rights). But shareholders generally cannot bring claims for reflective loss incurred as...

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Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting: A Stocktaking of Government Schemes

Kauffmann, Céline; Less, Cristina Tébar; Teichmann, … - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2012

This paper provides an overview of current government schemes promoting corporate reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and analyses their main building blocks. It describes the drivers and challenges for governments, companies and investors in dealing with GHG reporting and includes 4...

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Temporal Validity of International Investment Agreements: A Large Sample Survey of Treaty Provisions

Pohl, Joachim - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013

for States’ exit from these treaties.<P> This study presents the results of the survey of language that determines the …

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