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Making foreign investment safe : property rights and national sovereignty /

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The 1980s & 90s brought new protections to foreign investors in risky countries. Yet, the assurances failed to meet investors needs & imposed sometimes inordinate costs on poor countries. This text contains case histories which suggest reforms for international arbitration & official inv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wells, Louis T.
Other Authors: Ahmad, Rafiq
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Investments, Foreign > Indonesia > Case studies.
Infrastructure (Economics) > Indonesia.
Government ownership > Indonesia.
Right of property > Indonesia.
Arbitration (International law)
Investissements étrangers > Indonésie > Études de cas.
Nationalisations > Indonésie.
Droit de propriété > Indonésie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Investments & Securities > General.
Government ownership
Infrastructure (Economics)
Investments, Foreign
Right of property
Indonesia
investering
investment
investeringsbeleid
investment policy
buitenlandse investering
foreign investment
privatisering
privatization
armoede
poverty
ontwikkelingslanden
developing countries
instellingen voor ontwikkelingshulp
development agencies
bedrijfsvoering
management
Financial Management, Accountancy
Financieel beheer, accountancy
Electronic books.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • State take-over of infrastructure : 1967-1980
  • Indosat : foreign investment in a risky environment
  • The Indosat deal
  • Nationalization of Indosat
  • The power of being needed
  • Indosat : a successful state-owned firm
  • Return of private ownership of infrastructure : electric power, 1990-1997
  • Back to private power
  • Paiton's power : cost of poor preparation
  • Paiton's power : a new contender
  • Paiton's power : more home government support
  • Evaluating Paiton I
  • The new international property rights in action : 1997-2005
  • Paiton I : promises fail
  • Paiton I : backing away from the new property rights
  • Karaha Bodas Company : turning to arbitration
  • CalEnergy : claiming official political risk insurance
  • Enron : another kind of official insurance
  • Nationality, corporate strategy, and the new property rights
  • Revisiting privatization and the new international property rights system
  • Reforming for development and profits.