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Multilateral Investment Rules: Achieving a Balance between the Rights/Obligations of Companies and Countries

  “The history of international investment agreements has seen radical shifts in the public policy pendulum as represented by the balance of forces for regulation as compared with liberalization. In the recent past, liberalization forces have predominated, leading to strong bargaining power for multinational firms in their relationships with host governments – in all countries but especially those in the developing world.

  Since the final years of the last millennium, a new wave has begun to emerge, putting back on the agenda the issue of the obligations of companies and the rights of the countries in which they operate. The objective of the upcoming Brown Bag Seminar is to review these developments and discuss options for progress both within and out with the WTO”.


Biography of Dr. Tavares

  Ana Teresa Tavares is an Associate Professor of International Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Porto and she is affiliated with CEMPRE, one of the major research centres in Economics in Portugal. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at CIER, University of Glasgow and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Reading. She holds a Bachelors' degree in Management from the Faculty of Economics of Porto and a Masters' and Ph.D. in International Business from the University of Reading, UK.