Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty
Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty
With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world. Their cases focus on infrastructure projects, but the lessons apply equally to many other investments. In the 1990′s inexperienced firms from rich countries jumped directly into huge projects in some of the world’s least developed countries. Their investments reflected almost unbridled enthusiasm for emerging markets and t
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Not really interesting,
This book is not really interesting. I expected a good book about property rights and financial investments, but the book is uses cases all the time. There is no theory in it. The whole case is about Indonesia. It is only useful for people that like to know more about the history of investments in Indonesia. The title of this book is very misleading.
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I found the book by chance whilst doing my Master degree research on the high profile case of Karaha Bodas and its International Arbitration process. Previously shouted “Eureka!”, but got amazed on its tag price, especially when compared to its content; mostly Indonesian companies’ case. Its real life case study approach should be appreciated though, but I do not think that this book would be useful served all but to some specialists.
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