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Making foreign investment safe : property rights and national sovereignty /

The 1980s & 90s 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 inv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wells, Louis T.
Otros Autores: Ahmad, Rafiq
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.