Introduction

UNCTAD published its latest research and analysis on recent developments in IIAs. A comprehensive research note provides up-to-date review of the expanding universe of IIAs. The note highlights several major developments at the international level: first, the continued expansion of the universe of bilateral investment treaties, bilateral double taxation treaties and preferential trade and investment agreements; second, the increasingly sophisticated and complex content of the investment provisions in new agreements; third, a wave of BITs renegotiations either because the ...