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The upcoming start of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks offer a key opportunity to advance the cause of stronger investment protection.

(c) Analyse the role of intellectual property protection in international investment and technology flows

These changes have increased the complexity of the international investment regime, and should broaden interest in developing a more effective investment protection framework.

Treaties like investment protection agreements may not be suspended, given that their purpose is the mutual protection of national of the parties ).

But some vulnerable countries are still struggling to finance countercyclical investment and expanded social protection services.

The need for planning, even at a simple level, for sustainability and the protection of investment.

41. quot Protection of Foreign Investment in International Law quot , American Society of International Law (1985).

In particular, many LDCs had recently established investment promotion agencies and were entering into bilateral, regional and interregional agreements for the protection and promotion of investment.

Investment protection depended on a functioning international arbitration system that would be perceived as fair and equitable.

Environmental issues are being actively pursued, with emphasis on environmental protection compatible with mineral resource investment and development.

Lectures on protection of private foreign investment (in English), The Hague Academy of International Law, Regional Programme, Beijing, 1987.

Lectures on bilateral investment protection agreements (in English), International Law Seminar, United Nations Office at Geneva, June 1992. Main writings

Article 18 recognized that alternative, special regimes for the protection of foreign investors, as provided for in bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, took precedence over the general regime of diplomatic protection.

Action must begin with investment or with an intraregional treaty that affords extraterritorial rights and protection for regional capital and labour.

The Preparatory Commission was entrusted with the task of implementing resolution II, which embodied the regime for the protection of pioneer investment.

The Secretariat promotes productive, infrastructural and capital investment projects in education and health, environmental protection, economic and social infrastructure and municipal development.

A delegation noted that, under the UNCTAD least developed countries (LDC) programme, Benin had signed a bilateral treaty for investment promotion and protection.

It was also questioned whether the provision of special protection for shareholders would not in fact protect the investment rather than the national.

At the heart of the current system of investment protection is the World Bank, which created the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in 1966 in response to requests for arbitration by the Bank s president.

58. The synthesis report spells out some ways of combining small scale grant investment and local capacity building with long term environmental protection objectives.

Investment

Investment promotion, foreign direct investment, transfer of technology.

Public investment in infrastructure (such as a massive expansion of the European railroad network), as well as climate protection and environmental technology, will be needed.

Objectives Projects were suited to resolve a specific problem, such as the protection of water resources, protect a species, control erosion and secure an investment.

This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

An emphasis on investment protection could establish de facto international standards that ensure legal security for investors while providing sufficient scope for governments legitimate regulatory interests.

Governments may be able to mobilize funding through debt swaps, where donors exchange debt for local currency investment in environmental protection, such as waste water treatment.

Investment suffered.

Investment balances

Investment Section

Investment costs

Investment Section

Investment Section

Investment ledger

Investment guides

Investment Briefs

Investment costs

Industrial investment

An investment in youth is an investment in the future.

Investment promotion The Advisory Service on Investment and Training (ASIT)

Audit of the Investment Management Service investment performance measurement system

Investment in the democratization process is an investment in peace.

Bonilla Garcia, A. and J. V. Gruat (2003). Social Protection A Life Cycle Continuum Investment for Social Justice, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development. Geneva International Labour Office.