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OECD Initiative on Investment for Development: Towards a Policy Framework for Investment

01-Mar-2005

Launched in support of the Monterrey Consensus, the Policy Framework for Investment is intended as a non-prescriptive checklist of issues for consideration by any interested governments engaged in domestic reform, regional co-operation or international policy dialogue aimed at creating an environment that is attractive to domestic and foreign investors and that enhances the benefits of investment to society.

OECD publishes an Investment Policy Review of Romania

09-Feb-2005

This comprehensive review of investment policy in Romania assesses the untapped growth potential for foreign investment in Romania, measures the significant progress recently made by Romania to improve its business environment, and identifies the most significant remaining policy challenges.  This review was conducted by the OECD prior to inviting Romania to adhere to the OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises.

"Indirect Expropriation" and the "Right to Regulate" in International Investment Law

11-Oct-2004

This OECD study provides factual elements of information on jurisprudence, state practice and literature related to "Indirect Expropriation" and the "Right to Regulate".  It presents the issues at stake and describes the basic concepts of the obligation to compensate for indirect expropriation, reviews whether and how legal instruments and other texts articulate the difference between indirect expropriation and the right of the governments to regulate without compensation and attempts to identify a number of criteria which emerge from jurisprudence and state practice for determining whether an indirect expropriation has occurred.

Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Investment Law

11-Oct-2004

This study provides factual elements of information on jurisprudence, literature and state practice related to the fair and equitable treatment standard.  It examines the origins of the standard and its use in international agreements and state practice, its relationship with the minimum standard of international customary law and the elements of its normative content as identified by arbitral tribunals.

Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment in International Investment Law

05-Oct-2004

This study aims to enhance understanding of investment protection provisions in international investment agreements.  It provides a factual survey of jurisprudence and related literature on MFN treaty clauses in investment agreements.

Relationships between International Investment Agreements

19-May-2004

International, bilateral and regional agreements have proliferated in the last ten to twenty years and new ones are still being negotiated.  This study seeks to increase the level of understanding of the relationships between international investment disciplines, drawing on an analysis of key international investment agreements, and OECD’s experience with the relationship between its own instruments and other relevant agreements.

Forty Years' Experience with the OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements

22-Oct-2002

The OECD has actively promoted progressive liberalisation of current and capital account operations among its members for over 40 years. This report describes the challenges and benefits to OECD members as they liberalised capital movements.




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