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Treating Symptoms or Root Causes? The Draft Statute of an Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution

Kluwer Arbitration

For capital-exporting economies, it offers a means to ease some of developing countries’ concerns about ISDS – and in this way, to shore up a dispute settlement system the perceived legitimacy of which is under growing pressure. One is that, as donor countries may also be major capital exporters, there is potential for conflicts of interest.

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

Idle Capacity). Idle capacity “means the unused capacity of partially used facilities. 135] Hence, generally, the cost recovery for idle or underutilized equipment follows the principles behind an idle facility and idle capacity. An idle facility is a “completely unused” facility. 133] Underutilized Facilities (a.k.a.

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Government Contracts Inflation Update

Procurement Notes

And, “[t]he four components of gross domestic product are personal consumption, business investment, government spending, and net exports.” [28] 89] Generally, the NTIB countries are supposed to work together to ensure the R&D, technical know-how, production capacity, and maintenance of important defense materials and technologies.