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Cari koleksi dengan cepat sesuai kebutuhan Anda.Bangladesh has recently decided to build the country�s first nuclear power plant in the western region of Rooppur, despite strong public opinion against it. The Bangladeshi government argues that the project is necessary to diversify the country�s energy mix to improve electricity generation capacity. This commentary explores the Rooppur nuclear power plant project and argues that the…
Categorising organisations as either for-profit or nonprofit is a false dichotomy as existing for-profit firms are becoming more socially conscience while nonprofits are adopting profit-making activities to ensure their viability. This paper conceptualises the array of social practices as a continuum of social innovation and empirically demonstrates variation not captured by legal designation. …
We create new datasets on capital flows and bank balance sheets to document how the Spanish crisis of the mid-1860s fits the main characteristics of a twin crisis. Next,we describe the particular banking system of Spain, characterized by the coexistence of the Bank of Spain with multiple local banks of issue and a number of joint-stock banks (sociedades de cre�dito).We analyze the microeco…
Investment tribunals often follow the decisions of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal�a tribunal constituted in the aftermath of Iranian revolution overthrowing the Shah of Iran�for deciding indirect expropriation cases. Likewise there is strong support in academic writings in favour of this jurisprudence. Investment tribunals and scholars have ignored the peculiarities arising from the lex…
A consent award was issued in the case of St Mary�s VCNA, LLC v government of Canada�a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) arbitration established under the United Nations commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Arbitration Rules (1976). The brief award, rendered by a Tribunal composed of Richard Stewart, Brigitte Stern and Michael Pryles (presiding), recounted the…