The arbitration clause is a procedural guarantee in foreign investment contracts. A comparative study
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In an effort to enhance and diversify sources of income, achieve economic and social development goals, facilitate the transfer and localization of technology, acquire the necessary expertise to exploit resources, raise the level of gross domestic product, achieve self-sufficiency, increase the volume of exports, provide new job opportunities, and improve the national economy's ability to interact positively with the global economy, countries at various stages of economic development have issued laws that encourage foreign investment. Despite the efforts made by countries to update their investment legislation and join international agreements regulating investment, foreign investors believe that these measures remain insufficient unless accompanied by a willingness by the state and its public institutions to accept the inclusion of an arbitration clause in the investment contracts they sign. Foreign investors' preference for arbitration is due to various reasons, most notably their fear of the state interfering in the impartiality of its judiciary or its insistence on judicial immunity before foreign courts, in addition to the numerous advantages that arbitration offers to disputing parties that other means do not provide. As a result, arbitration is considered an effective and ideal tool for settling commercial disputes in general, and it has gained increasing importance as it is preferred over other means to resolve disputes related to foreign investment contracts that arise between the host state or one of its public institutions and the foreign investor.
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