International Investment Instruments
International Investment Instruments

Author: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Division on Transnational Corporations and Investment

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9789211126648

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This is the 13th volume in the series which contains a collection of international instruments relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and transnational corporations (TNCs). It is divided into three parts which cover: additional regional instruments; investment-related provisions in a number of additional free trade, economic partnership arrangements and framework agreements not covered in previous volumes; and the text of a number of additional prototype bilateral treaties for the promotion and protection of foreign investments (BITs) not covered in previous volumes.

Advances in International Accounting
Advances in International Accounting

Author: J. Timothy Sale

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2001-08-31

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0080543960

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This title is a refereed, academic research annual, that is devoted to publishing articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This serial examines how these developments affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices, taxation, management accounting practices, and auditing of multinational corporations, as well as their effect on the education of professional accountants worldwide. "Advances in International Accounting" welcomes traditional and alternative approaches, including theoretical research, empirical research, applied research, and cross-cultural studies.

Principles of International Environmental Law
Principles of International Environmental Law

Author: Philippe Sands

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-05-03

Total Pages: 993

ISBN-13: 1107376904

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The third edition of this classic textbook offers comprehensive and critical commentary on international environmental law. It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists, key areas of regulation and implementation, links to other areas of law and future developments. It has been updated to incorporate all the latest developments in treaty and case law. Extensive feedback on previous editions results in a restructuring of material, including a new part focused on linkage to other areas of international law including human rights, international trade and foreign investment. There is also a new chapter on future developments charting the directions in which the subject is moving. Specialist authors writing on oceans, seas and fisheries and biodiversity add to the expertise of the two principal authors for an authoritative overview of the subject.

The UN and Transnational Corporations
The UN and Transnational Corporations

Author: Tagi Sagafi-nejad

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-10-16

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0253000696

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Are transnational corporations (TNCs) and foreign direct investment beneficial or harmful to societies around the world? Since the birth of the United Nations more than 60 years ago, these questions have been major issues of interest and involvement for UN institutions. What have been the key ideas generated by the UN about TNCs and their relations with nation-states? How have these ideas evolved and what has been their impact? This book examines the history of UN engagement with TNCs, including the creation of the UN Commission and Centre on Transnational Corporations in 1974, the failed efforts of these bodies to craft a code of conduct to temper the revealed abuses of TNCs, and, with the advent of globalization in the 1980s, the evolution of a more cooperative relationship between TNCs and developing countries, resulting in the 1999 Global Compact.

Principles of International Environmental Law I
Principles of International Environmental Law I

Author: Philippe Sands

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 860

ISBN-13: 9780719034831

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This post-UNCED account of the frameworks, standards and implementation of the international environmental law is intended for undergraduates and academics in the fields of international law, politics, geography, economics and environmental studies. It can be used on its own as a reference or course text or in conjunction with its companion collections of documents.

Constraints and Impacts of Privatisation
Constraints and Impacts of Privatisation

Author: V. V. Ramanadham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1134961561

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This book contains papers on some 25 countries written by experts directly connected with privatisation, either as academics or as policy makers and practitioners, with a comparative review at the end by the editor. It highlights the major factors in the success and the failings of privatisation attempts in different countries in Europe, America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. In particular there are studies on the evolving experience of transformation to free market economy in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe.

United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations
United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations

Author: Khalil Hamdani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 131752828X

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The United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) was established in 1975 and abolished in 1992. It was an early effort by the UN to address the overlapping issues of national sovereignty, corporate responsibility and global governance. These issues have since multiplied and deepened with globalization. This book recounts the UNCTC experience and its lessons for international organizations. This book is not only an insider perspective by two former staff but also a collective memoir of the UNCTC as an international organization that attempted with varying success to defuse the clash between corporates and states that erupted in the turbulent 1970s. This personal account of the UNCTC is a mixture of history, analysis, reflections, and critical commentaries, told in different voices that penetrate the bland persona of international civil service. In this retelling, the authors seek to address misconceptions amongst the more general literature and to seek to provide accounts of both its positive and negative features. The UNCTC experience recounted in this book holds valuable lessons for international organization and will be of interest to student, scholars and practitioners alike.