Making foreign investment safe
Subtitle: property rights and national sovereignty
By: Louis T. Wells, Rafiq Ahmed
Contributors: Ahmad, Rafiq
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780195310627
Subjects: Case studies; Infrastructure (Economics); Right of property; Foreign Investments; Government ownership; Arbitration (International law)
Description: x, 378 pages : 24 cm
Table of contents: title: State take-over of infrastructure : 1967-1980; title: Indosat : foreign investment in a risky environment; title: The Indosat deal; title: Nationalization of Indosat; title: The power of being needed; title: Indosat : a successful state-owned firm; title: Return of private ownership of infrastructure : electric power, 1990-1997; title: Back to private power; title: Paiton's power : cost of poor preparation; title: Paiton's power : a new contender; title: Paiton's power : more home government support; title: Evaluating Paiton I; title: The new international property rights in action : 1997-2005; title: Paiton I : promises fail; title: Paiton I : backing away from the new property rights; title: Karaha Bodas Company  : turning to arbitration; title: CalEnergy : claiming official political risk insurance; title: Enron : another kind of official insurance; title: Nationality, corporate strategy, and the new property rights; title: Revisiting privatization and the new international property rights system; title: Reforming for development and profits.