inversión | TBI
The Guardian | 17-ago-2007
Tanzania was glad to secure the services of a British-led consortium to run the newly privatised water system in its capital Dar es Salaam. But then the price of water started to rise
Palabras clave:
agua ,
Gran Bretaña ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
Tanzania
| 5-jul-2007
With Seoul and Washington concluding their renegotiation of the Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA), it has been confirmed there were some ‘‘unfair parts’’ added to the economic deal under which investors of both sides are not treated equally in their respective countries.
| 25-jun-2007
A little known entity closely affiliated with the World Bank that mediates disputes between sovereign nations and foreign investors appears to be skewed toward corporations in Northern countries, according to an IPS review of pending cases and other independent analyses of the tribunals.
CCPA | 23-may-2007
Table of all disputes and their status as of 1 March 2007
Jakarta Post | 17-may-2007
MNCs can always refer to Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) to which Indonesia is a party and use the "umbrella clause" in the BIT to transform a problem that was originally a contractual dispute into an international investment dispute.
| 11-may-2007
A recently spawned legal battle between Slovakia and Madeta, the Czech Republic’s largest dairy processor, has led to a discovery that, for the past 10 years, Slovakia has not honored a trade agreement signed between the countries during the Velvet Divorce.
Palabras clave:
CIADI ,
Eslovaquia ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
República Checa
ITN | 9-may-2007
Investment Treaty News has learned that Bolivia has sent a formal notice to the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) declaring its withdrawal from the ICSID convention.
IPS | 4-may-2007
How the World Bank’s investment court, free trade agreements, and bilateral investment treaties have unleashed a new era of corporate power and what to do about tt
Palabras clave:
bilateralismo y multilateralismo ,
CIADI ,
intereses corporativos ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
FPIF | 3-may-2007
When Bolivian President Evo Morales took office in January 2006, he pledged to follow through on his campaign pledge to increase Bolivians’ share of revenues from their major source of foreign income, natural gas. International gas companies, however, threatened to sue. Previous Bolivian governments had signed a flurry of bilateral investment treaties that gave foreign investors the right to bypass domestic courts and file such lawsuits through international tribunals. Morales complained that these rules made him feel like a “prisoner” in the presidential palace.
Palabras clave:
Argentina ,
Bolivia ,
Canadá ,
CIADI ,
Ecuador ,
Estados Unidos ,
intereses corporativos ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
| 2-may-2007
Bolivia and Venezuela, both nationalizing huge swathes of their economies, should quit a World Bank body that arbitrates between foreign investors and states, Bolivia’s president said on Sunday.
Palabras clave:
Bolivia ,
CIADI ,
inversión | TBI ,
litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS ,
Venezuela
