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Problematising the relationship between mining, development and foreign investment in Colombia
OpinioJuris | 26-Aug-2021
The new resource extraction regime continued to consolidate through the approval of new development plans, new standards, and the signing of international investment agreements.
keywords: aid, Canada, Colombia, investor-state disputes | ISDS, mining
The ISDS reform process: The missing development agenda
South Centre | 12-Mar-2020
For developing countries, governing foreign direct investment through IIAs and ISDS corresponds to a policy model discredited by years of social and economic failures.
keywords: aid, investment | BITs, investor-state disputes | ISDS, reformed ISDS
Public-private partnerships and aid’s ’private turn’: addressing the investment law dimensions
IIED | 1-Feb-2018
Where PPP projects turn sour, governments could be exposed to arbitration claims under applicable investment treaties.
keywords: aid, investment | BITs, investor-state disputes | ISDS
Disaster capitalism: Ecuador forced to pay US oil giant $ 180M
Tele Sur | 30-Apr-2016
The Ecuadorean government is being forced to use money that could go toward relief efforts to instead pay off a multinational oil company.
keywords: aid, Ecuador, health, investor-state disputes | ISDS, natural resources