Economic, financial, and social ties are strong between the European Union and its neighborhood. More resilient societies in the EU’s neighborhood would mean that they are liable to suffer less damage from regional conflicts and global crises – and…
International arbitration institutions have been requested to administer an increasing number of investment disputes. In investment arbitration, a responding state usually stipulates its standing offers to arbitrate in the bilateral investment…
Regulatory measures on cross-border data flows are essential to personal data protection laws. The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) of the European Union (“EU”) is one of such influential personal data protection regimes, which has become…
Tourism and foreign real estate investment (FREI), both represent important sources of foreign income for some emerging nations. Mauritius, a small island economydepends largely upon tourism and it has been promoting FREI over the past two decades…
This article was published in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law.   More information on this publication is available here. 
La numérisation avancée de nos économies favorise le capital par rapport au travail et le travail qualifié par rapport au travail non qualifié. Sachant que le niveau de capital humain des pays de l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (…
Considered as the main source of economic growth in the United States of America and other northern countries, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are seen as a key factor that can boost Africa’s development. They have proved to be…
Considérées comme une variable exogène assimilable à une manne tombée du ciel (Schumpeter, 1913), les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) sont devenues progressivement indispensables dans le système de production (Baldwin et…
Recent trends in GDP growth in Africa reveal that despite sustained growth over a long period of time, there has been no significant decline in poverty or increase in employment. In most African countries, the decline in agricultural activity has…