Titlebook: Regulating International Business; Beyond Liberalizatio Sol Picciotto (Professor of Law, Director of the P Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a

CRACY

Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries (FDI) to developing countries. As the Fitzgerald Report puts it, ‘for developing countries, membership (of the MAI) would bolster the confidence of not only foreign but also domestic investors by ensuring that the policy regime is unlikely to shift in the future due to cost of withdrawal of a multi

Conduit

A Brief History of Business Regulationctivities of transnational corporations (TNCs). This has resulted in the need for a regulatory order which can both promote TNC activities and, where necessary, control them in the public interest. However, it is often overlooked that demands for international business regulation are far older than

Receive

Defending the Legacy of Rio: the Civil Society Campaign against the MAIational economic negotiations, and the importance of the core Rio principles of participation, consultation and sustainable development (UNEP, 1992). The MAI negotiation was initially followed by only a few NGOs, starting in mid-1996, but the network of interested groups grew at an amazing pace as i

athlete’s-foot

A Critical Assessment of the MAIernational investment. It argues that the negotiations for a MAI at the OECD were misconceived, as became clear with the failure to reach agreement on a text for approval by the OECD Ministerial Council in May 1998, and the suspension of the negotiations in October, with the withdrawal of the French