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Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty

ISBN: 0198042434 ;ISBN: 9780198042433 ;ISBN: 9780195310627 ;ISBN: 0195310624 ;EISBN: 0199783845 ;EISBN: 9780199783847 ;EISBN: 0198042434 ;EISBN: 9780198042433 ;EISBN: 0190295066 ;EISBN: 9780190295066 ;DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310627.001.0001 ;OCLC: 144618765

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  • Title:
    Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty
  • Author: Wells, Louis T
  • Ahmed, Rafiq
  • Subjects: Arbitration ; Arbitration, International ; Economics ; Foreign direct investment ; Government ownership ; Indonesia ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; International Economics ; International Finance ; Investments ; Investments, Foreign ; Property rights ; Public infrastructure ; Public ownership ; Right of property ; Right of property - Indonesia
  • Description: In the 1990s, inexperienced firms from rich countries jumped directly into huge projects in some of the world's least developed countries. Their investments reflected almost unbridled enthusiasm for emerging markets and trust in new international guarantees. Yet within a few years, the business pages of the world press were reporting an exploding number of serious disputes between foreign investors and governments. As the expected bonanzas proved elusive and the protections weaker than anticipated, many foreign investors became disenchanted with emerging markets. So bad were the outcomes in some cases that a few notable infrastructure firms came close to bankruptcy; several others hurriedly fled poor countries as projects soured. This book shows why disputes developed, points out how investments and disputes have changed over time, explores why various firms responded differently to crises, and questions the basic wisdom of some of the enthusiasm for privatization. It tells how firms, countries, and multilateral development organizations can build a conflict-management system that balances the legitimate economic and social concerns of the host countries and those of investors. Without these changes, multinational corporations will lose profitable opportunities and poor countries will not gain the contributions that foreign investment can make toward alleviating poverty.
  • Publisher: United Kingdom: Oxford University Press
  • Creation Date: 2006
  • Format: 389
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0198042434
    ISBN: 9780198042433
    ISBN: 9780195310627
    ISBN: 0195310624
    EISBN: 0199783845
    EISBN: 9780199783847
    EISBN: 0198042434
    EISBN: 9780198042433
    EISBN: 0190295066
    EISBN: 9780190295066
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310627.001.0001
    OCLC: 144618765
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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