Database
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State of Tax Justice country data
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · November 04, 2020 5:35 PM
TJN country data summaries from the forthcoming 'State of Tax Justice 2020' report are now available The 'State of Tax Justice' report, launched in September 2020, is a new collaboration between GATJ, TJN and Public Services International, and offers new data on the scale of tax abuse and associated risks facing individual countries and regions, along with the key rankings of the most dangerous tax haven jurisdictions, and laying out the upcoming opportunities for policy progress at the global level. -
25 year on: realising the Beijing Declaration’s unfulfilled promise on macroeconomic policy
Posted by Ilaria Crotti · October 30, 2020 2:48 PM
Webinar by the Gender and Development Network.
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UNCTAD Mapping of PPP-related ISDS cases
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · October 29, 2020 2:44 PM
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United Nations Commission on International Trade Law transparency registry
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · October 29, 2020 2:35 PM
The Transparency Registry is a central repository for the publication of information and documents in treaty-based investor-state arbitration.
The Transparency Registry has been established under the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based investor-State Arbitration (the "Rules on Transparency"), effective as of 1 April 2014. The function of the Transparency Registry is undertaken by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, through the UNCITRAL secretariat.
The Rules on Transparency comprise a set of procedural rules that provide for transparency and accessibility to the public of treaty-based investor-State arbitration. They apply in relation to disputes arising out of treaties concluded prior to 1 April 2014, when Parties to the relevant treaty, or disputing parties, agree to their application. The Rules on Transparency apply in relation to disputes arising out of treaties concluded on or after 1 April 2014 ("future treaties"), when investor-State arbitration is initiated under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, unless the parties otherwise agree. The Rules on Transparency are also available for use in investor-State arbitrations initiated under rules other than the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, and in ad hoc proceedings.
Consistent with the aim to enhance transparency in treaty-based investor-State arbitration, the Transparency Registry publishes information and documents where:
- The Rules on Transparency (whether or not as amended by the Parties to the treaty) apply pursuant to article 1 of the Rules; or
- The Transparency Registry is appointed for the publication of information and documents in treaty-based investor-State arbitration, either by Parties to an investment treaty or by the parties to a dispute.Link to the registry: https://www.uncitral.org/transparency-registry/en/guidelines.html
FAQ - UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration
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UNCTAD database on Bilateral Investment Treaties
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · October 29, 2020 2:09 PM
UNCTAD has a very good database on BITs which is available here.
IIA Mapping Project
The IIA Mapping Project is a collaborative initiative between UNCTAD and universities worldwide to map the content of IIAs. The resulting database serves as a tool to understand trends in IIA drafting, assess the prevalence of different policy approaches and identify treaty examples.
The “Mapping of IIA Content” allows browsing through the project results to date (the page is regularly updated as the new results come in).
Please cite as: UNCTAD, Mapping of IIA Content, available at https://investmentpolicy.unctad.org/international-investment-agreements/iia-mapping
For more information:
Mapping Project page
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How to deal with private creditors
Posted by Ilaria Crotti · October 28, 2020 5:17 PM · 1 reaction
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Interactive COVID DFI Tracker
Posted by · October 28, 2020 3:48 PM
To date, the interactive COVID DFI Tracker has tracked known investments of $73 billion USD for nearly 500 project-level investments from 14 development banks. The actual number of projects is probably greater, given the inconsistencies of and opacity in disclosure practices by some banks. The Tableau Server is having issues today, so please scroll down if you would like to sort through the projects by type of response (ex: economic, health, education), in addition to filtering by bank or country. Not surprising, about half of the projects tracked so far have an economic relief component.
- The Early Warning System has started to track projects for the newly-minted US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and Development Bank of Latin America (CAF,) bringing the total to 15 for banks monitored through the initiative.
- Finally, we are sharing this post about our access to information work and lessons learned from analyzing the actual disclosure practices of development banks from a community-centric lens.
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Future is Public : International database of de-privatised public services
Posted by · October 28, 2020 3:41 PM
TNI has launched the International database of de-privatised public services! It has been more than seven months since the conference Future is Public in Amsterdam. We hope you are well.
If you go to: https://publicfutures.org
* you can search for countries, sectors, years, how de-privatisation happened, etc,
* you can download all cases,
* you can submit new cases - click 'Submit case '. You are requested to make your account,
*The database contains 1452 cases in total (end of July 2020).
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Erlassjarh : Global Sovereign Debt Monitor 2020 and interactive map
Posted by · October 20, 2020 2:22 PM
The global debt crisis is gripping more and more countries in the Global South. It is threatening the livelihoods of millions of people. At the same time, many over-indebted countries are suffering massively from the impacts of climate change. Bone crushing debt servicing is hampering urgently needed adaptation measures.
Check the map of highly indebted countries world-wide :
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FinCEN files
Posted by Olivia Lally · September 21, 2020 1:46 PM
The ICIJ has just released a new leak named FinCEN files focused on the role of large banks in large-scale money-laundering and the broken financial system that enables this.