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Creeping Expropriation

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Creeping expropriation
The act of a government squeezing a project by taxes, regulation, access, or changes in law.

Creeping Expropriation
The continual restriction of private property rights gradually over time by a government. Creeping expropriation involves legislation, regulation, and taxation, which together over time make it difficult for a person or business to own property. Creeping expropriation, where it exists, makes it increasingly difficult to conduct commerce.


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The US treaty, for example, protects all kinds of investments and guarantees the investor the better national treatment or MFN (Most Favoured Nation) treatment; international standards apply to expropriation, including creeping expropriation.
238) While the parameters of creeping expropriation are not settled as a matter of international law, it seems that the Indian government's actions--specifically, the use of the Indian legal system to contravene contractual requirements-effectively satisfied OPIC's definition of total expropriation.
 
 
 
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