Indigenous peoples and international trade: building equitable and inclusive international trade and investment agreements

"The creation of rules by governments in international trade and investment agreements are heavily swayed by the interests 'elite' economic actors, such as "multinational corporations, industry associations, banks, hedge funds, and billionaires who can effectively influence the n...

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Weitere Verfasser: Borrows, John 1963- (HerausgeberIn), Schwartz, Risa 1971- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge University Press [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:"The creation of rules by governments in international trade and investment agreements are heavily swayed by the interests 'elite' economic actors, such as "multinational corporations, industry associations, banks, hedge funds, and billionaires who can effectively influence the negotiating position of the most powerful governments." These alliances often generate business practices and policy preferences which disadvantage Indigenous and other economically marginalized people. International investment and its investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism has had a "differentiated and disproportional negative impact...on women as well as on Indigenous peoples, particularly in relation to resource extraction in or near Indigenous peoples' territories.""--
Beschreibung:xxi, 332 Seiten
ISBN:9781108493062
1108493068

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