New report: the limits of FDI in Latin America
The Global Development and
Environment Institute (GDAE) is releasing a new discussion paper from the
GDAE-sponsored Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas.
Building on previous work on foreign investment in Latin America, the new
report highlights the limited benefits of foreign direct investment and
investment liberalization in the region:
“Justice Denied: Dispute Settlement in Latin America’s Trade and
Investment Agreements,” Michael Mortimore, Leonardo Stanley. Working Group
Discussion Paper DP27, October 2009.
This report analyses the arbitration schemes under investor-state dispute
provisions in Latin America’s numerous trade
and investment agreements. The authors find that such provisions are biased
toward international investors. Such a bias can skew legal systems in the
region and threaten the ability of foreign investment to spur much-needed
economic development in the Americas.
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on Development and Environment in the Americas
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Group on foreign investment
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