Dutch bilateral investment treaties : a gateway to 'treaty shopping' for investment protection by multinational companies
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Abstract:
This SOMO report highlights the until now unexplored role Dutch investment protection policy plays in establishment decisions of multinational companies. The report argues that current Dutch investment policies are used for treaty shopping, allowing for investor–state dispute settlement based on broad-based bilateral investment treaties definitions that pose a danger to policy space and the safeguarding of public goods and interests. Treaty shopping is not only highly problematic from a sustainable development perspective for southern countries, but increasingly for northern states as well.
Authors:
Os, R. van
,
Knottnerus, R.
Country:
Netherlands
Category:
Research
ISBN:
978-90-71284-84-7
Keywords:
development policy
,
finance
,
sustainable development
Language:
eng
Organization:
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
PAGE:
49
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
SOMO
Year:
2011
Region:
Western Europe
Right:
© 2011 SOMO. This document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivateWorks 2.5 License.
Subject:
Economic Development and Trade
Title:
Dutch bilateral investment treaties : a gateway to 'treaty shopping' for investment protection by multinational companies