3.7 Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT)

3.7.1 Generation of BITs The generations' (the first (the 1959-Germany-Pakistan (the Europeans-and-the-developing (the protection-era)); the second (the 1980s-90s'-boom (the US-model (the ISDS-included (the NAFTA- era)); the third (the 2000s'-the-refinement (the 2010s'-the-reform (the India-2015-model (the 2016-CETA-2018-UNCITRAL (the fourth-emerging (the exam's-generations-map))))))); 3.7.2 Emerging Trends and Future of BITs The trends (the termination-wave (the Ecuador-and-the-others (the denunciation)); the modernisation (the renegotiated (the EU's-architects (the investment-court (the multilateral (the UNCITRAL-WG-III (the reform-options (the appellate (the two-tier (the exam's-trend-essay)))))))); the future (the sustainable-BIT (the reform-clauses (the right-to-regulate (the climate-carve-outs (the exam's-future-faces))))) 3.7.3 Common Elements under BITs The anatomy (the definition (the U1.3's); the scope (the investors (the dual-nationals)); the standards (the U1.4's-five (the FET-NT-MFN-FPS)); the expropriation-and-the-compensation (the transfer-rights (the free-repatriation; the ISDS (the consent-clause (the ICSID-and-the-ad-hoc (the Umbrella-clause (the debated (the SGS-cases (the names-only (the exam's-clause-menu)))))))))); 3.7.4 BITs Concluded by Nepal and their Impact on the Nepalese Economy The Nepal's-BITs (the handful-concluded (the list-hedged (the India-and-the-others (the few-in-force (the Nepal-the-treaty-shy (the why (the caution (the negotiating-capacity (the exam's-Nepal- position))))))); the impact (the FDI-small (the treaties-didn't-move (the investors-came-anyway (the IBN-era (the MoUs (the conversions (the honest-audit (the exam's-impact-finding: the treaties-not- the-determinant (the fundamentals-the-determinant))))))); 3.7.5 General Comparison of BITs and Multilateral Investment Treaties The compare (the BIT (the bilateral-tailored (the fast (the "the-web-fragmented"))); the multilateral (the one-rules (the ICSID-Convention (the procedure-only (the substantive-never (the MIA-absent (the ECT-the-regional…