From: Madhyam India <madhyam10@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Subject: Madhyam Briefing Papers
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*Apologies for cross-posting*
● Briefing Paper # 3
The Pitfalls of FDI in Multi-Brand Retailing in India
Shekar Swamy
This paper critically examines the benefits of foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail trade in India. Drawing from international experiences, the author argues that the big retail business is essentially a game of market concentration and domination. The paper delineates some of the long-term negative effects on the self-organized retail industry in India.
Protecting Investors' Rights: An Assessment of EU's New Mandate on International Investments
By Burghard Ilge and Kavaljit Singh
An analysis of the recently leaked EU's negotiating mandate for investment protection measures under the proposed free trade agreements with India, Singapore and Canada. The authors contend that by approving such a lop-sided negotiating mandate, the European member-states have lost an opportunity to achieve a greater balance between investors' rights and host government policy space.
Madhyam (www.madhyam.org.in)
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