This chapter will compare whether and to what extent China and India could take measures aimed at protecting public health within the framework of their BITs. After discussing BIT disputes on the issue of public health, I will discuss the evolution of the Chinese and Indian approaches to foreign...

This paper attempts to compare and contrast the origin, evolution and current state of play of BIT programmes in five major emerging economies i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa or (BRICS economies). In recent years, there is a growing interest in these emerging economies, which...