00599nam a2200085Ia 4500100001800000245010800018260000900126520035900135583001900494  aKodama, Yoshi  aThe Multilateral Agreement on Investment and its legal implications for newly industrialising economies  c1998  aSummarizes the background to the MAI negotiations and examines some possibly novel features of the MAI's direction.  Summarizes also, specific issues in the context of the MAI's implications for developing countires.  Explores some possible special rules which may be introduced in the MAI or whatever attempts to create multilateral rules of investment.  c10/29/07kJOYD