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​Asean Economic Community forces shift in FDI structures to protect investor rights

By Phoebe Seers ( March 29, 2016, 09:17 GMT | Insight) -- The launch of the Asean Economic Community has produced a dichotomy in the treatment given to Asean investors and that afforded investors from outside the bloc. Foreign investment in Asean countries with high levels of political or regulatory risk needs to be structured to take advantage of specific provisions in trade and investment treaties to protect investor rights, so that in the event of some kind of expropriation of an investment, the investor should have recourse to investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms. The launch of the Asean Economic Community, or AEC, has produced a dichotomy in the treatment given to Asean investors and that afforded investors from outside the bloc....

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