1st September 2003

Investment, Doha and the WTO

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Investment, Doha and the WTO. By Aaron Cosbey, Luke Peterson, Howard Mann & Konrad von Moltke (RIIA, September 2003). Looking at the experience of the MAI, of regional agreements covering investment, such as NAFTA, and at the more than 2000 bilateral investment treaties in existence, the paper makes the case for an agreement including obligations on investors (such as maintaining high environmental and social standards), as well as opportunities, support for capacity-building amongst poorer countries, and a more open and legitimate model of dispute settlement - all quite different from the existing model of WTO agreements.