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Bilateral Investment Treaties and Disputes
18-Apr-2004 IATP Trade Observatory
Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) have greatly proliferated in the last two decades, and play an increasingly significant role in global trade and investment protection.
Analysis: Sleeping Beauty And Prince Charming: Bilateral Deals Are No Fairytale
24-Mar-2004
The recent explosion of bilateral investment and trade agreements and investor-state disputes is of growing concern. Many mobilisations against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) aim to stop attempts by industrialised countries to kickstart talks on a multilateral investment agreement at September’s Cancun Ministerial meeting.