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This paper discusses the issue of technology transfer in the context of international investment agreements (IIAs) and is divided into four main sections. The first section is an explanation of the...

In the past four decades, national and international legal policies and rules concerning foreign direct investment (FDI) have repeatedly changed. This paper provides an overview of the developments in...

This publication considers the factors that contributed to the decision of the members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to discontinue the negotiations on the Multilateral...

The Demographic Yearbook is a comprehensive collection of international demographic statistics. This definitive source of demographic and population statistics includes data on about 229 countries, or...

This paper examines the topic of transnational bribery in the context of international investment agreements (IIAs), as well as other international instruments that address issues related to the...

Most international negotiations on foreign direct investment focus on issues involving the paired relationship between transnational corporations and host countries. This publication discusses the...

The importance of foreign direct investment for development has dramatically increased in recent years. This concise study offers balanced and easily accessible analysis of the issues involved...

Demographers, economists, public health workers and sociologists have found this Yearbook a definitive source of demographic and population statistics. About 250 countries and regions are represented...

The Demographic Yearbook is an international source of statistics providing basic statistical data for over 200 countries or areas. It meets the needs of demographers, economists, public-health...

Through cooperation with the national statistical offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in this yearbook, as available, for more than 230 countries and areas of the world. This latest...

Demographic Yearbook 2011 is the the sixty-second in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in...

Demographic Yearbook 2012 is the the sixty-third in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in...

Demographic Yearbook 2013 is the the sixty-fourth in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in...

The Demographic Yearbook is an international source of statistics that contains basic statistical data for over 200 countries or areas to meet the needs of demographers, economists, public-health...

This edition of the United Nations Demographic Yearbook (DYB-CD) supplements the 51st edition of the Demographic Yearbook (DYB). It presents natality statistics for the period 1980-1998 in twenty...

Investment-related trade measures help shape the attractiveness of the investment climate by altering trade conditions associated with a given country or region. This concise study offers balanced and...

Investment agreements must specify not only their geographical and temporal coverage but, and most importantly, their subject-matter coverage, which is done primarily through the provisions on...

Transfer pricing methods raise important and contentious policy questions for both host and home governments, as well as transnational corporations, as they directly affect the amount of profit...

The legal and policy options surrounding the admission and establishment of foreign direct investment by transnational corporations into host countries, is a topic that raises questions central to...

The most-favoured-nation treatment (MFN) standard is a core element of international investment agreements, it gives investors a guarantee against certain forms of discrimination by host countries...