So fixing drainage and other infrastructure, she says, is key to keeping the city business friendly.
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With their history of poverty and underdevelopment, Southern states are motivated to be business friendly.
The reasons Jobs gave were regulations and the administration not being business friendly.
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More and more businesses will move operations to countries that offer a business friendly community, that have less regulations and taxes.
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If you make it hard for foreigners to do business in your country they will move to more business friendly shores.
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But at some point, when government becomes too much of an impediment to business, corporations will relocate or outsource to more business friendly venues.
When a group of supposed reformers left the splintering party this week to set up a new outfit, it could have grabbed the fiscally conservative, business friendly centre.
They liked the complete package of business friendly taxes, regulations, a tamed tort bar, and a good supply of young engineers coming out of Mississippi State in Starkville.
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Daniels says that survey respondents were likely to rate their local area as business friendly if they were aware of training and networking programs offered in the vicinity.
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Silicon Valley may have a larger tech scene, but with a low cost of living, a business friendly tax code, and South by Southwest, Austin has become a serious player, advocates like Baer say.
When France decided to make Nicolas Sarkozy its new president, many took into account the fact that he was the most business friendly of all candidates, with known connections to chief executives of some of the country's biggest companies, including Francois Pinault and Arnaud Lagardere.
Most surveys of this type simply analyze a variety of business-friendly factors such as regulations, hiring laws, and business-support services and seeing how each location ranked in each area.
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Most providers of these small business-friendly servers distribute them through one of your neighbors, a local small business computer company.
What's more, Dubai is cosmopolitan and business-friendly enough to lure talent from far afield.
The administration is waging a campaign to show the world just how business-friendly the U.S. is.
Mr. Thompson has been positioning himself as a more business-friendly Democrat than some of his competitors.
Many utopians mistake government working with private enterprise as business-friendly support for free markets.
The U.S. corporate tax environment is one of the least business-friendly in the world.
Kay said the business-friendly features Apple unveiled last month for the iPhone are just a start.
Not one of the top ten exit states made the list of business-friendly states.
It is true that some states, such as Gujarat, have business-friendly leaders who can win elections.
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But it also puts pressure on the Scottish government to explain just how business-friendly it is.
He has secured a more business-friendly finance minister, in the shape of Hans Eichel.
The report finds, for example, Eastern Europe is now a more business-friendly region than East Asia.
It has no state capital-gains or income tax, and a business-friendly and immigrant-tolerant attitude.
For all of her business-friendly policies, Rousseff also stays true to her background in social justice.
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In other areas, the state transition toward creating a small business-friendly tax climate is already in effect.
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Regulations and taxes remain low, making Texas one of if not the most business-friendly state in the country.
He has shifted his Social Democrats towards a more market-oriented, business-friendly centre, closer to the liberals' own position.
"He was projecting himself as business-friendly but that failed, " said Naveen Aggarwal, an Indian-based analyst at KPMG LLP.
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