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The Sustainable Markets Group has created a new Briefing series to support our work on direct investment and sustainable development. The first publications in the series are designed to inform citizen groups and NGOs about sustainable development issues raised by legal arrangements for the protection of foreign investment.

Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings: Overview
Lorenzo Cotula
Sep 2007 - IIED
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Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings: Investment treaties
Lorenzo Cotula
Sep 2007 - IIED
This briefing explains how investment treaties between states work to protect and promote foreign investment.
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Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings: The regulatory taking doctrine
Lorenzo Cotula
Sep 2007 - IIED

This briefing introduces one of the most controversial legal doctrines of investment law – ”regulatory taking” – and sets out its implications for sustainable development.
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Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings: Foreign investment contracts
Lorenzo Cotula
Sep 2007 - IIED

This briefing sets out some of the ways in which foreign investment contracts can impact on sustainable development.
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Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings: International arbitration
Lorenzo Cotula
Sep 2007 - IIED

This briefing explains how international arbitration works to resolve disputes between foreign investors and host states, and outlines some of the problems associated with its use, from a sustainable development perspective.
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Legal empowerment for local resource control: Securing local resource rights within foreign investment projects in Africa
Lorenzo Cotula
September 2007 - IIED
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