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Benedicto P. Panigbatan 'Land to the landless!' is a popular battle cry in the Philippines where agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. Accordingly, the Philippines has long embarked on what is known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme (CARP) to distribute land to landless farmers. CARP found impetus when Republic Act No. 6657 (R.A. 6657) was enacted and, subsequently, when Republic Act No. 9700 (R.A. 9700) amended it to extend the timeline for land acquisition and distribution.

Luis Gabriel Morcillo María Camila Ordoñez In November 2015, the Brazilian National Monetary Council issued Resolutions 4444 and 4449 with the goal of attracting investments from insurance and local reinsurance companies, pension funds and capitalisation companies (institutional investors) to infrastructure projects.

Oene Marseille Emir Nurmansyah In response to Rupiah's rapid decline in value, the central bank of Indonesia, Bank Indonesia (BI), has issued a series of regulations requiring that certain documentation be produced in foreign exchange transactions against Rupiah above a certain threshold.

Daw Khin Cho Kyi Daw Thaw Dar Sein Until July 2013, although Myanmar was a party to the Geneva Protocol on Arbitration Clauses of 1923, it was not a party to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention (the ICSID Convention) or to other international conventions relating to arbitration. Myanmar deposited its instrument of accession without reservation to become a contracting state of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, which became effective on July 15 2013.

The lighter side of the past month in the world of financial law

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Here are the highlights from last week's IFLR Indian Capital Markets forum in Mumbai

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