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AbstractThe 2016 Morocco–Nigeria bilateral investment treaty (BIT) stands out from other such treaties because of its innovative human rights approach to the protection and promotion of foreign direct investment. Human rights permeate its approach to the regulation of investment in a manner which is most unusual in international investment agreements (IIAs). As a result, this is the most socially-responsible BIT currently concluded. Although it remains exceptional within the investment-treaty framework, the treaty reflects African initiatives to ensure that the next generation of BITs encourages more responsible investments. As such, it shows that human rights-compliant investment treaties can find fertile ground in developing African countries and it sets an example for current and future negotiations aimed at fostering respect for human rights in investment activities.

This study analyses how far the strong expansion of Argentine exports since. - 2003 has been due simply to favourable external conditions and how industrial. - manufactures have behaved. It finds that the country's pattern of international. - specialization has not greatly altered at the major category level, but that both. - primary products and manufactures of agricultural origin, which account for much of. - the trade surplus, have undergone significant changes in composition. In addition,. - regional trade has consolidated and traditional partners such as the European Union. - and the United States have been displaced to some extent by China. Industrial. - manufactures have continued to suffer from a strong comparative disadvantage,. - but certain high-technology industrial sectors, such as agricultural machinery and. - pumps and compressors, have started to become competitive, while seamless oil. - and gas tubing is already highly competitive. (CEPAL/GIGA)

Importance of diplomacy in view of economic, military, and geopolitical limitations.