Multilateral agreement on investment

Monthly Review

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 23-32

  Roberts, Joseph K ^a  

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EID: 0002516491     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-050-05-1998-09_3     Document Type: Review

References (5)

1. John McMurty, "The MAI Would Make Corporate Rule Absolute," Monitor (Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa), vol. 4, no. 4, September, 1997, pp. 12-13.
2. Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow, MAI (Toronto: Staddard, 1997) pp. 43-4.
3. Ibid., p. 15
4. Ibid., p. 26. The "fast track" language which the Clinton administration will use to get approval to sign the MAI says: "sec. 2 (b) principal Trade Negotiation Objectives.... 3. Foreign Investment: The principal negotiating objective of the United States regarding foreign investment is to reduce or eliminate artificial or trade distorting barriers to U.S. foreign investment by (a) reducing or eliminating exceptions to the principle of national treatment; (b) freeing the transfer of funds relating to investment; (c) reducing or eliminating performance requirements and other unreasonable barriers to the establishment and operation of investments; (d) establishing standards for expropriation and compensation for expropriation consistent with the U.S. legal principles and practices; and (e) providing meaningful procedures for resolving investment disputes." Monitor (Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives), vol. 4 no. 7, December 1997 and January 1998, p. 23.
5. William I. Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p.6.