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The legal regime of foreign private investment in Sudan and Saudi Arabia /
Developing countries require foreign investment for growth; yet in the existing economic order, investors often come across a range of obstacles. This revised edition draws on the author's experience both as a legal academic and international investment lawyer to detail the interaction between...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- ABBREVIATIONS
- GLOSSARY OF ARABIC WORDS USED
- TABLE OF CASES
- (1) Permanent Court of International Justice
- (2) International Court of Justice
- (3) Sudanese cases
- (4) Decisions of foreign municipal courts and arbitral awards
- TABLE OF STATUTES
- (1) Sudan
- (2) Saudi Arabia
- (3) Statutes of other countries
- TABLE OF TREATIES
- PART ONE Certain preliminary issues
- 1 Foreign investment in politico-economic perspective.
- 1. The new trends in the international investment climate
- 2. Investment patterns in the international investment climate
- (a) Direct participation, joint ventures and production-sharing agreements
- (b) Triangular arrangements
- (c) Four-cornered arrangements
- 3. The role of international organizations in improving the investment climate
- (a) Drafting of investment conventions and codes
- (b) Rendering of technical advice and research
- (c) Sharing in investment with private investors
- 4. Sudanese and Saudi Arabian foreign investment policies
- (a) Sudan.
- (I) Foreign capital and socialism in Sudan
- (ii) Openness policy
- (iii) Arab-Sudanese joint ventures and Western technology
- (iv) Effect of political stability and national unity on foreign investment
- (b) Saudi Arabia
- (i) Industrialization
- (ii) Institutions for industrial promotion
- (iii) Investment patterns
- 5. Conclusions
- 2 Prerequisites for the admission of investments
- 1. What investments are eligible?
- (a) The meaning of 'foreign investor'
- (i) Natural persons
- (ii) Juridical persons
- (b) The meaning of investment
- (i) Legislation
- (ii) Treaties.
- (Iii) Draft conventions
- 2. Where to invest in Sudan and Saudi Arabia
- (a) The right of a state to regulate investment within its territory
- (b) Conformity with the economic and social plans
- (i) Sudan
- (ii) Saudi Arabia
- 3. Entry visas and residence and work permits
- (a) Modification of immigration laws in favour of foreign investors
- 4. How to invest
- (a) Duty to obtain a licence
- (i) Sudan
- (ii) Saudi Arabia
- (b) Registration of foreign investment
- (c) Procedure for forming business institutions
- (i) Sudan
- (ii) Saudi Arabia
- 5. Conclusions.
- 3 Impediments to foreign investment
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Socioeconomic impediments
- (a) Competing opportunities
- (b) Absence of a sizeable market
- (c) Sizeable shortcomings in the infrastructure and basic facilities
- (d) Political and financial instability
- 3. State measures affecting the investment climate
- (a) The 'screening' of foreign investment
- (b) Restrictions on the entry of foreign capital
- (c) Labour legislation
- (d) Nationalization and expropriation
- (e) Exchange control
- (f) Taxation
- (i) International double taxation.