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The Dark Side of Investment Agreements
December 2011
Cecilia Olivet

Signing international investment treaties, in the hope of attracting foreign investments, has been a central strategy for governments looking to improve economic development. The less known side of this story is that by signing investment treaties,...

Legalised Profiteering?
November 2011
Nick Buxton

The secretive and lucrative world of international investment arbitration has enriched a small coterie of multi-billion dollar international firms, which actively promote and even help finance litigations against states and have fought fiercely to prevent changes to an unjust international...

ASEAN Regional Forum on Investment (21-22 September, Manila)
September 2011

Between 20 and 21 September 2011, 40 ASEAN campaigners and experts met in Manila to share knowledge and experiences, articulate common strategies and discuss alternatives to the current investment regime. 

Small-scale farmers increasingly at risk from 'global land grabbing'
April 2011
Jun Borras
 Ian Scoones, David Hughes

New research on the global rush for agricultural land shows that small-scale farmers will increasingly lose out to major corporations as land deals ignore local tenure rights.

Change EU investment policy - now is the time!
January 2011
Alternative Regionalisms
 Seattle-to-Brussels network (S2B)

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) allow transnational corporations to by-pass domestic courts and sue sovereign states - costing tax payers millions in legal expenses and preventing governments from acting in the best interests of their citizens.

New economics for a new administration
August 2010
Walden Bello

A new government in the Philippines offers the country a rare window to fundamentally shift away from failed economic policies, subordinate to neoliberal ideology and the pre-eminance of illegitimate foreign debtors.

Angola: Reinventing Pasts and Futures
June 2010
David Sogge

Today’s political economy in Angola resembles the colonial order of yesterday: a narrow state-based elite manages the economy to promote a development model that redistributes wealth upward and outward.

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