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Making foreign investment safe : property rights and national sovereignty / Louis T. Wells, Rafiq Ahmed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Louis T., author.
- Ahmad, Rafiq, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investments, Foreign--Indonesia--Case studies.
- Investments, Foreign.
- Infrastructure (Economics)--Indonesia.
- Infrastructure (Economics).
- Government ownership--Indonesia.
- Government ownership.
- Right of property--Indonesia.
- Right of property.
- Arbitration (International law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 1980's & 90's brought new protections to foreign investors in risky countries. Yet, the assurances failed to meet investors needs & imposed sometimes inordinate costs on poor countries. This text contains case histories which suggest reforms for international arbitration & official investment insurance.
- Contents:
- State take-ove11119610r of infrastructure : 1967-1980
- Indosat : foreign investment in a risky environment
- The Indosat deal
- Nationalization of Indosat
- The power of being needed
- Indosat : a successful state-owned firm
- Return of private ownership of infrastructure : electric power, 1990-1997
- Back to private power
- Paiton's power : cost of poor preparation
- Paiton's power : a new contender
- Paiton's power : more home government support
- Evaluating Paiton I
- The new international property rights in action : 1997-2005
- Paiton I : promises fail
- Paiton I : backing away from the new property rights
- Karaha Bodas Company : turning to arbitration
- CalEnergy : claiming official political risk insurance
- Enron : another kind of official insurance
- Nationality, corporate strategy, and the new property rights
- Revisiting privatization and the new international property rights system
- Reforming for development and profits.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029506-6
- 0-19-804243-4
- 1-4294-5946-8
- 9786610846849
- 1-280-84684-4
- OCLC:
- 144618765
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