It's also striking how much more valuable foreign-owned businesses are to Scotland than indigenous ones.
In manufacturing, foreign-owned companies accounted for 36% of value added and 27% of employees.
In services, foreign-owned companies generated double the value added per worker, and had labour costs 30% higher.
Detroit would want imported automobiles barred from the country and foreign-owned U.S. factories closed down.
Meanwhile, foreign-owned car companies have created some 20, 000 new jobs in mostly southern factories.
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And if there are several competitors, what does it matter whether a few are fully foreign-owned?
Lower rates will not necessarily encourage Chile's banks, some of which are foreign-owned, to lend.
He also pledged to punish foreign-owned power companies that he said charged too much.
And, right on cue, two foreign-owned, high-tech multinationals have just announced plans for the region.
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And the occupation of foreign-owned businesses will do nothing to draw new investment into Argentina.
Many companies -- especially foreign-owned -- say they will not even consider such locations for new sites.
Now the top 20 include six foreign-owned banks, among them TD Bank, HSBC, Santander and BNP Paribas.
Among others, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has expressed support for competition from foreign-owned exchanges.
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That worked when mainly foreign-owned banks were willing to risk their shareholders' money to chase market share.
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Western commentators say the Kremlin has also used Gazprom to wrestle control of foreign-owned energy investments in Russia.
In 2003 only three of America's 20 biggest banks were foreign-owned, with a paltry 2.2% share of deposits.
Estonians hope that the banks (almost all foreign-owned) have learned from the past.
Apparently, something about them being foreign-owned stimulated them to be more agile and creative, which resulted in more product introductions.
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He also took on Hong-Kong based Star TV, helping it to become one of the first foreign-owned broadcasters in Asia.
But also, as cynics point out, the governor needs cash to ensure his election, and foreign-owned companies might provide it.
The only difference now is that all the volume production is done by foreign-owned firms, led by Nissan, Honda and Toyota.
Foreign-owned resource extraction companies are often criticised for providing little in the way of local employment and contribution to local economies.
If national carriers became foreign-owned, they ran "the risk of every other country saying, 'Sorry, you're unable to fly', " he said.
Yet with congressional elections looming this autumn, the government is reluctant to offer any more to Aguas or the other foreign-owned utilities.
Like many of his fellow managers at the sprawling park, home to over 800 foreign-owned companies, Tang is not a citizen of China.
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Secondly, the foreign-owned companies were simply also better at coming up with new stuff on their own, in comparison to their domestic counterparts.
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Fixed at uneconomic rates, these price controls amount to a default on Argentina's contractual obligations to the utility companies, many of them foreign-owned.
Meanwhile, much of the profits from resource exploitation leave the continent entirely in the hands of foreign-owned companies which pay low rates of tax.
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