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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808325503321

Autore

Wells Louis T.

Titolo

Making foreign investment safe : property rights and national sovereignty / / Louis T. Wells, Rafiq Ahmed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-19-804243-4

1-4294-5946-8

9786610846849

1-280-84684-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Disciplina

332.67/309598

Soggetti

Investments, Foreign - Indonesia

Infrastructure (Economics) - Indonesia

Government ownership - Indonesia

Right of property - Indonesia

Arbitration (International law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

State take-ove11119610r 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.

Sommario/riassunto

The 1980's & 90's 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 investment insurance.