Examples of using Iias in English and their translations into Arabic
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Countries also have to cope with the systemic challenges deriving from the highly atomized structure of the IIA universe and the complicated interplay between IIAs and national development policies.
However, for some countries that had concluded IIAs in the hope of attracting FDI, the particular experience was that IIAs turned into a source of litigation.
The increasing breadth of the agreements raises new issues concerning the proper degree of regulatory discretion to reserve for countries concluding IIAs.
The IIAs work programme provides a forum for consensus-building on issues related to IIAs and their development dimension.
Developing countries with frequent policy changes and weak negotiation positions also face a considerable risk of concluding inconsistent IIAs.
As the IIA regime continues to grow, with governments concluding more than three IIAs per week, it also experiences a certain consolidation at the regional level.
A/ The inclusion of an issue in this list does not necessarily mean that all recent IIAs address it.
Eighty per cent of respondents to the survey give SP2 a high rating in strengthening their ability to negotiate different and better IIAs.
This is particularly the case when maintaining the status quo involves the negotiation of new IIAs that are based on existing models.
Third, economic development policy is becoming more complicated by the web of overlapping commitments arising from IIAs containing a variety of provisions applicable to the same matters.
Views concurred regarding the difficulty of establishing tangible proofs that the conclusion of IIAs would increase FDI inflows to developing countries.
The system is multilayered-- that is, IIAs now exist at the bilateral, regional, plurilateral and multilateral levels, and IIAs at different levels overlap.
These outputs help investment stakeholders make better use of IIAs for attracting and benefiting from foreign investment.
IIAs represent the international dimension of a rules-based approach to governing foreign investment and productive capital flows in a predictable and non-discriminatory manner.
At present, only very few IIAs consider the use of ADR techniques to settle investor- State disputes.
In addition to the 254 agreements already in existence, at least 70 such IIAs were under negotiation by the end of June 2008, involving 108 countries.
Thus, no country can be sure that its IIAs remain unchallenged before international tribunals.
What major problems do developing countries face in negotiating new IIAs and in coping with existing ones?
Chapter III recognizes that IIAs discipline the use of policies undertaken by the parties involved and addresses the role of safeguards and the right of host governments to regulate.
Countries have also continued negotiating IIAs at the bilateral and regional levels, with novel provisions and reformulations.