UNCITRAL Working Group III: Can Reforming Procedures Rebalance Investor Rights and Obligations?By Lorenzo Cotula and Terrence Neal
The work of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) provides an opportunity to rebalance the international investment (more...)
Why the US Proposals on Development will Affect all Developing Countries and Undermine WTOBy Aileen Kwa and Peter Lunenborg
US submitted two highly problematic proposals to the WTO in January and February 2019, undermining the place of Special and Differential Treatment (more...)
Building a Mirage: The Effectiveness of Tax Carve-out Provisions in International Investment AgreementsBy Daniel Uribe and Manuel F. Montes
The present policy brief analyses the language of taxation carve-out provisions incorporated in International Investment Agreements (more...)
La coopération Sud-Sud en Afrique du Sud 40 ans après le BAPAPar Neissan Alessandro Besharati
Alors que les États membres et les Nations Unies (NU) se préparent pour la deuxième Conférence de haut niveau sur la coopération Sud-Sud (CSS) quarante ans (more...)
South Africa’s South-South cooperation 40 years after BAPABy Neissan Alessandro Besharati
As member states and the United Nations (UN) prepare to come together for the 2nd High Level Conference on South-South cooperation (SSC) forty years after the adoption of the (more...)
Developing Countries and the Contemporary International Tax System: BEPS and other issuesBy Marcos Aurélio Pereira Valadão
This policy brief addresses the design of international taxation and tax cooperation in the context of issues presented in the Organisation of Economic (more...)
Title: Working Lunch Meeting on US’ proposal on ‘AN UNDIFFERENTIATED WTO'Date: Monday, 11th February, 2019, 13:00 - 15:00 Venue: South Centre, (more...)
WHY THE US PROPOSAL (WT/GC/W/764) WILL AFFECT ALL DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND UNDERMINE THE MULTILATERAL SYSTEM
US’ recent submissions to the WTO attempt to fundamentally change the concept of Special and Differential Treatment (S&D) at the WTO from an unconditional right for (more...)
Key Issues for BAPA+40: South-South Cooperation and the BAPA+40 SubthemesBy Vicente Paolo B. Yu III
Developing countries today face multiple interlinked macroeconomic, financial, climate, and development challenges. South-South (more...)
