Kicking, Analysts Say IPS news reports appear daily in English, German, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. MAI campaigners lobbied against before the negotiations on the agreement failed in Paris this week as a result of withdrawal of support by France. If MAI principles are alive and well in other treaties, quite why the MAI was launched at all back in 1995, is uncertain.
Analysts give varying reasons.
The OECD consists of 29 industrialised nations - none of them from the developing world. Simms argues that it is not without reason that the MAI has been dubbed ''a solution without a problem''. The big industry lobbyists were in there right from the start, but some of the principles such as protecting industries from expropriation were bizarre. It's in the U.N. system and it has been looking at investment for many years. It's true it has not anything like this.