They are also much less unionized, an important factor for foreign and expanding domestic firms.
Another factor that can discourage foreign companies from setting up sophisticated operations in China is the dramatic rate of employee turnover.
Foreign direct investment, an important factor powering growth in China during the last two decades, declined for the eighth straight month in May, when it fell 17.8%.
In response, the Foreign Office said languages were a vital factor in selecting diplomats for overseas postings and were taken into account in all senior appointments.
Official data also suggest that immigration may be another factor behind rising birth rates - foreign-born mothers make up nearly a quarter of the figures.
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While the choice revolves around a number of issues (such as health care, abortion, gay marriage and foreign policy), the economy is the factor looming large in the minds of most voters.
Another factor is Poland's reliance on foreign capital, much of it short-term.
The strengthening yen was a factor, making local products less attractive to foreign buyers, but investors were also riled after a parliamentary select committee approved a bill to double consumption tax by 2015.
But the main constraining factor for a US president in both domestic and foreign affairs is public opinion.
However, the detractors of solar do not factor in all of the subsidies given to non-renewable energy (hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the USA), and they do not factor in the cost of our military to secure foreign oil supplies or our ongoing medical costs due to air pollution.
The fact that President Barack Obama and his senior foreign policy advisers are themselves Arabists no doubt is a significant contributing factor to the increased popularity of fake realism.
"It is my impression that the diplomatic work he has done in Iraq, for instance, will be more prominent a factor at the UN than his political orientation, " the foreign policy analyst adds.
They are also a major factor eroding the competitiveness of domestic industry, which will face increasing foreign competition under WTO and ASEAN trade liberalization commitments.
The measures are being closely watched not only by foreign firms, but also by global investors who see a vital India as an important factor in spurring global growth.
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In the U.S., courts are governed by state law over whether to honor foreign judgments, and evidence of fraud or a hopelessly corrupt court system is one key factor they consider.
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What would have been the impact on commodity prices and the foreign exchange value of the dollar if the Fed had increased the money supply by a factor of eight (rather than a factor of three) in a bit more than four years?
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After all, foreign private-portfolio investments in the U.S. ebb and flow with the emotional current, no easy factor to predict.
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