international investment law
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Ultra aims to be giant in oil and gas business
...Mr. Wongtschowski: This is a long-term investment, so it is a structural, not a cyclical purchase. And we are convinced that ...Thus, it is somewhat inexorable that international market prices end up affecting domestic prices. So, we are confident that ...
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Corporate governance versus corporate governance: an international review: uma análise comparativa da produção acadêmica do tema governança corporativa
Este artigo analisou comparativamente a produção acadêmica do tema Governança Corporativa sob a ótica dos seguintes periódicos: Corporate Governance e Corporate Governance: An International Review, no período de 2001 a 2012. Metodologicamente realizou-se um estudo bibliométrico com análise de redes sociais, em um universo de 1.008 artigos. Os resultados permitem concluir que há uma centralidade...
...53, n. 10, p. 789-801, 2002. . FAKHFAKH, H.; ZOUARI, G.; ZOUARI-HADIJI, R. Internal capital markets and investment decisions. Corporate Governance , v. 12, n. 2, p. 179-198, 2012. . FASSIN, Y. C.; ROSSEM, A. V. Corporate Governance in the Debate on CSR and ... -
Water, democracy and the construction of citizenship: lines for a complex socio-juridical analysis
This essay aimed at discussing one of the most serious crises experienced in the world today, the water crisis, and placing it at the center of the State from the discussion about citizenship and democracy, considering that access to water is a human right, and its absence may indicate fragility in contemporary democracies and, therefore, precariousness in the full exercise of citizenship. Thus,...
...PhD in law and development. Member of the international waterlat organization. . Email: irivaldos@gmail.com . Belinda Pereira da ... shortage of water, caused by irregular rainfall, lack of public investment, poor water distribution, sum up the process of large-scale ... -
Agreements could increase use of renminbi in Brazil-China trade
... the Chinese currency and further facilitate bilateral trade and investment.China has such agreements with more than 25 countries to settle payments ... domestic (China National Advanced Payment System, CNAPS) and international (Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, CIPS) payment systems.Brazil’s ...
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A possibilidade do direito humano de acesso à água como categoria autônoma
...International Centre For Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) sob o tratado ...
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Direito a ambiente de trabalho seguro e saudável na declaração de princípios da OIT
Gomes e Machado: Direito a um trabalho seguro e saudável
...Alston, Philip; Heenan, James, "Shrinking the International Labor Code: An Unintended Consequence of the 1998 ILO Declaration on ... and obligations of a Member arising from existing trade and investment... -
Climate change, risks and adaptation strategies in the brazilian context
Environmental quality and adaptation to climate change risks is mobilizing the attention of the academic community and policy makers around the world. The use of the territory and its environmental resources at levels capable of ensuring the regeneration and resilience of populations and ecosystems, as well as the structuring of international and national environmental governance capable of...
... of populations and ecosystems, as well as the structuring of international and national environmental governance capable of equating environmental .... Investment for Urbanization of Precarious Settlements . Permanence of the ... -
Vale expected to keep digging out of Brumadinho hole
... policy provides for the payment of 30% of EBITDA minus current investment in the form of dividends. "At the moment we are not discussing the ...
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The municipal urban planning legislation in Uberlândia-MG: The constitution of a highway policy and the absence of urbanity in new urban subdivisions /A legislação municipal de planejamento urbano em Uberlândia-MG: a constituição de uma política rodoviária e a ausência de urbanidade em novas subdivisões urbanas
This article analyzes the urban planning legislation of Uberlândia-MG and how it contributes to the constitution of real estate developments such as land subdivisions resulting in low availability of quality public areas, building a city where public spaces are not prioritized. In opposition, there is the constitution of areas using anticipation of public areas that prioritize and consolidate a...
... vehicle generates criticism around the world, with the small investment in public transportation and the high urbanization costs of these areas. ... were held in 2016 in Quito (Ecuador) at the HABITAT III International Conference. The conference documents, available at the event's . ... -
Bill to change Judicial Recovery Law is lower house's priority
... considers it "crucial" and states that there is "very high international expectation" regarding the part that deals with transnational bankruptcy. "This will be a great incentive for foreign investment in Brazil," he says. The measure, if approved, will allow cooperation ...
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Eco-efficiency in bidding processes to purchase everyday supplies for the brazilian federal administration
Environmental sustainability in the Government’s daily self-management should be the subject of efficient public policies, especially in the management of public assets. In this sense, and through the deductive methodology, the article focuses on the analysis of the operation and management of public administration in dealing with the purchase of everyday equipment, in order to watch out the...
... and the jurisprudence when it regards large-amount state investment such as infrastructure projects. However, the routine of the ... to be made effective and with local, regional, national or international repercussion. (OLIVEIRA, 2014) . Thus, the core of the political activity ... -
The environmental regularization program (pra) as a new model of recovery of environmental liability: failure of 'punir to conscious'
Brazilian environmental legislation, and especially the New Forest Code of 2012, sought to incorporate prerogatives of sustainability and sustainable development into Brazilian Environmental Law, culminating in meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations. The legislation had aspects such as amnesty for crimes occurred prior to the year 2008,...
... of reconciling agribusiness and the economic sector in the international scenario, and the protection of forest environmental assets, which are ..., but important in the operation of the end-of-life business: investment, ixed assets, deferred). . The liability, in turn, is any business ... -
Marina Silva supports regulator’s decision to block Petrobras drilling
...Investment in exploration and production is still seen as essential to enable the ...
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Are Zombie Companies in Mexico the same as in the rest of the World?
..., Preve, & Sarria-Allende, 2012) and is susceptible to international economic crises (Cabrera, Coronado, Rojas, & Romero-Meza, 2018). Mexico is ... based on projects or activities that require greater financial investment and therefore have greater risk, which means that if the activities fail ...
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Government steps up pressure on companies that used tax benefits
...Was it used for investment? Was it disguised as profit distribution? Or was it passed on completely ...
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SPIC to take part in Port of Açu's thermal power projects
China's State Power Investment Corporation, through its subsidiary SPIC Brasil, signed an agreement to ...
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A aquisição de terras por estrangeiros e soberania: aportes para uma proteção normativa / The acquisition of lands by foreigners and sovereignty: contributions to normative protection
O presente artigo trata dos problemas relacionados à aquisição de terras por estrangeiros e a necessidade de impor limites a essa prática em função do disposto no art. 190 da Constituição. Serão analisados os requisitos previstos pela lei nº 5.709/71 para aquisição de imóveis rurais por estrangeiros e a importância dos cartórios de registro de imóveis para o controle prévio dessas aquisições. São
...Finally, it is demonstrated that international tradings have been dominating grain production in Brazil, through ... grabbing, which means concentration of land by corporations, investment funds and financial markets, which take over huge land holdings for ... -
Global energy transition 'becomes more difficult without Brazil'
The Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Australian John Denton, has been in Brazil ... felt the risk of disengagement from a lot of value chains and investment patterns because the actual policy settings in Australia were not as ...
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Unconstitutional limbo: why the Smithsonian Institution may violate the separation of powers doctrine
Com a abertura do Museu Nacional de História Afro-Americana, as pessoas estão novamente vindo em massa ao National Mall para ver a mais nova edição do Smithsonian. E quase todos americanos conhecem o Smithsonian – de modo que seu reconhecimento ultrapassa os 90% nas pesquisas públicas. Todos os anos, 30 milhões de pessoas visitam os museus Smithsonian ao longo do National Mall em Washington, D.C.,
... to Congress, approving annual trust fund spending and the investment of the Smithsonian endowment, accepting gifts, designating names of ... for Islamic Arts and Culture to be part of the Smithsonian International Center, to be located in the Smithsonian’s newly built Quadrangle ... -
Governance and Upgrading in GVCs: Why does Embeddedness Matter.
... Report, World Development, Economy and Society, Review of International Political Economy, UNIDO, Oxford Development Studies, Journal of Economic ... and Skill development: global value chains and foreign direct investment in Lesotho's apparel industry. OFSE Working Paper 32. Vienna: OFSE. ...
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Despite pressure for clean energy, Brazil extends the use of coal by 2040
...With an investment of more than R$2 billion, the project, in Candiota (state of Rio Grande do ... almost 20% at the end of the last decade.According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), a group of large countries, including Brazil, have ...
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Monitoring and managerial discretion effects on agency costs: Evidence from an emerging economy
We analyzed the effect of managerial ownership, leverage, and managerial discretion on the agency costs of 14,719 Chilean companies. The results of the instrumental variables (IV) regressions indicate that managerial ownership and capital structure have a negative and nonlinear effect on agency costs. Managerial ownership concentration is an effective means of internal control over agency costs,...
...International evidence shows that agency costs are recurrent in large firms with diluted ... that disciplines managers and inhibits the discretionary use of investment policy. Other studies warn that, while leverage mitigates equity agency ... -
A utilização de Mock Arbitrations em arbitragens comerciais internacionais
Lívia Moraes: Mock Arbitrations em arbitragens internacionais
... office of Latham & Watkins and global Co-chair of the firm's International Arbitration Practice. Her practice is focused on complex international ...p. 120. [9] If a law firm is defending a government in an investment arbitration commenced by a distressed investor, and the amounts claimed ... -
A Internet das Coisas: Tipologias, Protocolos e Aplicações
[Propósito] O propósito do artigo é caracterizar a internet das coisas em sua diversidade de abordagem terminológica, base de protocolos, informações tecnológica e principais aplicações. [Metodologia] O artigo comunica a pesquisa bibliográfica da temática, numa abordagem de estudo exploratório descritivo. A partir da pesquisa bibliográfica foi possível identificar as diversas tipologias da...
... Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International . Abstract [Purpose] The purpose of the article is to characterize ... . Investcorp investment insights (2019): 1-22. . KHANZODE, K. C. A & Sarode, R. D. EVOLUTION OF ... -
Oil companies take legal action against crude export tax
... dialogue with the industry, throws uncertainty on new investment decisions, affecting the competitiveness of Brazil in the exploration and ...