Preserving Flexibility in IIAs : The Use of Reservations / UNCTAD.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

UNCTAD.

Series:

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Series on International Investment Policies for Development, 1814-201X.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Reservations in International Investment Agreements are a key technique for balancing flexibility of national authorities with international commitments in the field of investment, especially for developing countries. This paper studies the use of such reservations at two levels. First, it assesses the various means that signatories have at their disposal when attempting to preserve flexibility and regulatory autonomy. Second, it explores the revealed preferences for flexibility emerging from the reservation lists of eight International Investment Agreements employing a negative list approach to scheduling non-conforming measures.

Contents:

Preface

List of abbreviations

Executive summary

Introduction

Flexibility in IIAs

Revealed policy preferences: Reservation patterns in selected IIAs

Concluding remarks

References

A brief description of the sample IIAs under review

Handle with care: A word of methodological caution

Selected recent UNCTAD publications on TNCs and FDI

Questionnaire.

ISBN:

9789211555462

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.