Book contents
- Poverty and the International Economic Legal System
- Poverty and the International Economic Legal System
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Part I Poverty and international law
- Part II IEL institutions and poverty
- 3 Introductory note
- 4 Poverty, redistribution, and international trade regulation
- 5 Trade liberalization and poverty reduction
- 6 God, the WTO – and hunger
- 7 Does free trade matter for poverty reduction? The case of ASEAN
- 8 Poverty alleviation through paperless trade
- 9 Introductory note: arbitration, insurance, investment, corruption, and poverty
- 10 International commercial arbitration and poverty, not obvious but (maybe) possible
- 11 Foreign direct investment and the alleviation of poverty
- 12 The “corruption objection” to jurisdiction in investment arbitration
- 13 Investment guarantees and international obligations to reduce poverty
- 14 Access to justice in dispute resolution
- 15 From problem to potential
- 16 The Millennium Challenge Corporation, law, and poverty reduction
- 17 Introductory note: reflections on law and poverty
- 18 Ambitious goals, limited tools? The IMF and poverty reduction
- 19 The direct contribution of the international financial system to global poverty
- 20 The World Bank
- 21 Life, debt, and human rights
- 22 Sovereign debt, odious debt, and the poverty of nations
- 23 Poverty and corruption
- Part III IEL and poverty
- Part IV Challenging our assumptions
- Index
13 - Investment guarantees and international obligations to reduce poverty
A human rights perspective
from Part II - IEL institutions and poverty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2013
Book contents
- Poverty and the International Economic Legal System
- Poverty and the International Economic Legal System
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Part I Poverty and international law
- Part II IEL institutions and poverty
- 3 Introductory note
- 4 Poverty, redistribution, and international trade regulation
- 5 Trade liberalization and poverty reduction
- 6 God, the WTO – and hunger
- 7 Does free trade matter for poverty reduction? The case of ASEAN
- 8 Poverty alleviation through paperless trade
- 9 Introductory note: arbitration, insurance, investment, corruption, and poverty
- 10 International commercial arbitration and poverty, not obvious but (maybe) possible
- 11 Foreign direct investment and the alleviation of poverty
- 12 The “corruption objection” to jurisdiction in investment arbitration
- 13 Investment guarantees and international obligations to reduce poverty
- 14 Access to justice in dispute resolution
- 15 From problem to potential
- 16 The Millennium Challenge Corporation, law, and poverty reduction
- 17 Introductory note: reflections on law and poverty
- 18 Ambitious goals, limited tools? The IMF and poverty reduction
- 19 The direct contribution of the international financial system to global poverty
- 20 The World Bank
- 21 Life, debt, and human rights
- 22 Sovereign debt, odious debt, and the poverty of nations
- 23 Poverty and corruption
- Part III IEL and poverty
- Part IV Challenging our assumptions
- Index
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- Poverty and the International Economic Legal SystemDuties to the World's Poor, pp. 189 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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