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The International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC) is the international reference classification of productive economic activities. The publication's main purpose...

Broad Economic Categories (BEC) aims to analyse international trade statistics by large economic classes of goods and services, based on the main outputs of corresponding industries, to facilitate...

The concept of fair and equitable treatment, which has assumed prominence in investment relations between States, provides a yardstick by which relations between foreign direct investors and...

Section I of the book contains an explanation of the concept of transparency as it is understood in the context of international investment agreements. Section II provides a review of current treaty...

In this publication, Section I defines the concepts of direct and indirect expropriation and reviews the variety of measures that can constitute an expropriation. Section II focuses on the core issue...

The Statistical Commission, at its thirty-ninth session, held in New York from 26 to 29 February 2008, adopted part I of the draft IRIS 2008, containing the recommendations for statistical units...

The publication provides recommendations on the concepts, definitions, classifications, data sources, data compilation methods, approaches to data quality assessment, metadata and dissemination...