He quickly learned to negotiate his way around India's suffocatingly regulated business regime.
Mr Brown, instead, seems determined to fiddle about with the market, chopping and changing the business tax regime to no obvious effect.
Wholesale public and private divestment of stocks of publicly traded companies doing business with the regime would be one.
Similarly, investors have no way of checking whether a foreign firm that is a candidate for investment is conducting business with a regime subject to U.S. sanctions.
And while Russia previously insisted that it was not in the business of 'regime change' in Georgia it now says there should be an arms embargo on Georgia until Saakashvili has been removed from office.
It would this appear that Russian opposition to sanctions in Sudan is not purely a self-interested act or ploy, but actually reflects a comprehensive understanding of diplomacy and statecraft, one very different from our own, that is predicated above all else on the understanding that the first order of business for any regime is survival.
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The company got back into business with the Iranian regime after a six-month hiatus.
Yet, the EU has already upbraided Ireland for its business-friendly tax regime.
This said that the UK, "despite having a higher corporation tax level than many other countries", has the 16th most business-friendly tax regime.
Business with the Iranian regime is going to get even riskier.
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Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) took measures last year to ensure that the Department of Energy is prohibited from providing financial support to companies doing business with the Iranian regime.
Due in no small part to the protesters in Tahrir Square calling for the arrest of all those who did business with the former regime, Egypt's wealthy and foreign investors are taking their money out of the country.
Diplomats at the United Nations are working on a document that would demand restrictions on oil and other commercial business with the Syrian regime if it refuses to implement the Annan peace plan for a cease-fire and a transitional government.
The imperative of U.S. export growth demands some degree of sanity be restored to our business-crippling trade remedies regime.
But Iraq's exposure to daylight was an exception not repeated among rogue states after Bush left the regime-change business in 2004.
In some industries, the government continues to act as a proprietor, owning and managing business within a central planning regime that sets input and output targets.
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"This is really a very strong signal suggesting that the historical alliance between the regime and the business establishment in the capital is at least partially broken, " added ICG's Harling.
"If it comes into force this proposal would give the Welsh Government the power to set the tax regime for a business of which it is the sole owner and beneficiary".
First, the strength of ordinary Ukrainians' feelings about the outcome how sick they are of the current regime and the business oligarchs who prop it up, and how far they are prepared to go to defend Mr Yushchenko's claims of victory.
Regime uncertainty lessened and business confidence rose commensurately making firms more willing to invest.
What is the value to your company of instituting a compliance regime that covers the business-critical process of e-discovery.
Lebanon remains a tinderbox of sectarian rivalries, making regime change a complex business.
It put an end to investments on the part of that state's firefighters, police officers, National Guard personnel and other public employees in companies doing business with the Islamofascist and genocidal regime in Sudan.
So far it looks as if Myanmar's neighbours are simply looking for excuses to let them return to doing business as usual with its nasty regime, as soon as all the fuss has died down.
And if these companies feel little shame in doing business with a brutal and dangerous regime, it falls to statesmen to do their job and put these companies to a choice by imposing sanctions that cut them off from lucrative markets in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
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In time, argue fans of an Iranian route, America's hostility to business dealings with Iran's thuggish regime will fade.
Now China worries that Libya's new authorities will make it pay for its support for the old regime by discriminating against it in business deals, including potentially lucrative ones related to the oil industry.
"Key elements of that robust regulatory regime must include conservative capital requirements, business conduct standards, reporting requirements and conservative requirements relating to initial margins on counterparty credit exposures, " the department added.
These days business owners are less fearful of populism from the Estrada regime than of a return of Marcos cronyism.
Six decades and four presidents on, the revolutionary regime has metamorphosed into one that encourages private business and allows for some pluralism.
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