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• Taxing the global worker: three spheres of international social security coordination

  - 2006-06-22

  Social security is a fundamental part of workers' lives in three spheres: contributions are required, benefits are hoped for, and taxes on benefits may have to be paid. If a worker splits a career between several countries, each of these three spheres is affected. The United States has sought international...

  Tags: agreement, arbitration, Avoidance, benefit, Doc, FINANCE, Friendship, Government, income, Joint, OECD, Restatement, Stat, Taxation, taxation, Taxes, Treaty, treaty, U.S., worker

• India plans ore export deal with China: Paswan.

  - 2006-05-18

  May 18--NEW DELHI -- The country is actively planning to enter into a long-term ore export agreement with China besides seeking to re-negotiate a fresh ore supply deal with Japan. "We are thinking of entering into a five-year ore export agreement with China in view of ...

  Tags: agreement, China, conference, Government, Japan, OECD, Steel

• World review October-December 2005: a synopsis of the key strategic developments in corporate responsibility around the globe over the last quarter.

  - 2006-03-22

  The living dead THE POPULAR DEPICTION OF TODAY'S office worker as highly stressed, struggling to get ahead in the rat race of today's cut-throat corporate world is a familiar one. Yet the key concepts in a book at the top of the UK business...

  Tags: accountability, agreement, barrier, brand, CSR, Government, Leadership, negotiation, OECD

• The reversed and responsible MAI: responsibility proven first, investor rights second.(Reversed and Responsible Multilateral Agreement on Investment)(voluntary environmental agreements )

  - 2004-06-22

  In this paper, we propose a process called 'The Reversed and Responsible Multilateral Agreement on Investment' RRMAI, which requires corporations to prove their commitment to act in a responsible manner based on principles and requirements, building on the work of existing voluntary initiatives for corporate responsibility...

  Tags: agreement, environment, ENVIRONMENTAL, FINANCE, Gibson, Government, Investment, investor, Leadership, M., monitoring, NAFTA, OECD, performance, Reporting, Strategy

• OIL, DIAMONDS, AND SUNLIGHT: FOSTERING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH TRANSPARENCY IN REVENUES FROM NATURAL RESOURCES

  - 2003-10-01

  Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.1I. INTRODUCTIONGovernment corruption provides both an incentive and a means for human rights violations. Corruption provides an incentive for government officials to engage in human rights abuses in order to retain their access to the public...

  Tags: agreement, Angola, bribery, Chad, FINANCE, Government, OECD, revenue, SOFTWARE, U.S., World Bank, World Trade Organization

• UK government secures landmark agreement for world's poorest countries.

  - 2001-07-24

  M2 PRESSWIRE-24 July 2001-UK Government: UK government secures landmark agreement for world's poorest countries C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24072001 Support for the world's 41 poorest nations will now concentrate on projects which provide them with social and economic benefits,...

  Tags: agreement, government, OECD, U.K.

• Pressure from citizens' group kills trade treaty for now - Multilateral Agreement on Investment - Brief Article

  - 1999-01-29

  The Multilateral Agreement on Investment, a global economic treaty proposed by the world's wealthy nations, is dead, a victim of powerful lobbying by nongovernmental organizations. Opponents of the treaty warn that global big business, abetted by the U.S. and European Union governments, intends to revive the treaty's ghost in...

  Tags: agreement, FINANCE, Government, investment, Investment, OECD, SOFTWARE, treaty, U.S., World Trade Organization

• Multilateral Agreement on Investment - trade treaty negotiated by members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

  - 1998-10-01

  As we know, Marx did not develop an analysis of economic imperialism as it emerged after 1885, but he identified tendencies within nineteen-century capital, which we recognize today as causes. We think of capital concentration and centralization, the externalization of markets and the falling tendency of the rate of profit...

  Tags: agreement, democracy, FINANCE, Government, investment, investor, OECD, SOFTWARE, treaty, U.S.

• Super NAFTA.(North American Free Trade Agreement)(Multilateral Agreement on Investment will change how people are governed)(Brief Article)

  - 1998-07-06

  Almost as soon as the public at large got news of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment MAI--the highly secretive proposed international trade treaty that's been labeled "NAFTA on steroids"--reports were floated that the deal was on its deathbed. Those reports were dangerously exaggerated, for this Corporate...

  Tags: agreement, FINANCE, Government, NAFTA, OECD, SOFTWARE, treaty

• Foreign direct investment and legal constraints on domestic environmental policies: Striking a "resonable" balance between stability and change

  - 1998-07-01

  GAETAN VERHOOSEL* I. INTRODUCTION The interplay between foreign direct investment FDI and sustainable development is increasingly becoming the object of research and debate.1 Pursuant to the explosive growth of FDI in recent years,2 and the rising share of developing and transition economies in total FDI flows,3 the impact of FDI...

  Tags: agreement, compensation, environment, Environmental, FINANCE, Government, Investment, investor, NAFTA, OECD, regulation, standards