非洲投资法律环境的变迁及应对

Abstract:The African Law Environment is mainly composed of the domestic investment laws in African countries，the bilateral investments treaties concluded and the multilateral regional and international treaties relating to investment joined by African countries. Since 2000，the domestic investment laws in African countries can be characterized as improving the domestic investment environment，expanding the local content requirements，domesticizing the investment dispute settlement，and internationalizing the domestic commercial arbitration. As for the bilateral investment law environment，there is a great increase in their numbers，an imbalance in their distribution as well as a shift in their content；and for the regional investment environment，the regional integration of investment laws and the regionalization of the investment dispute settlement are common phenomena in various regional economic communities in Africa；and last for the multilateral investment law environment，the multilateral investment guarantee is available to almost all the African countries by the MIGA. Most African countries are also members of ICSID Convention which provides a special platform for the investment dispute settlement，and the number of the investment disputes accepted by ICSID involving African countries is on the increase especially since 2000. The evolution of the investment law environment in Africa will definitely influence Chinese investment to Africa. Therefore，the relevant departments in the Chinese government and the Chinese enterprises making business in Africa should take relevant measures to response to such evolution.

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