And even in promising Iraq, where many Western companies have won contracts, much infrastructure must be rebuilt.
Nonetheless, the evidence suggests that many western companies are wasting money in their lemming-like rush into global electricity.
But with major names now signing the safety deal, the many Western clothes companies using Bangladesh are looking more divided.
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Many Chinese companies use Western-sounding names to make their companies or product brands sound modern, or to imply their businesses have Western connections.
Many of the big Western oil companies are being scared off by the prospect of more sanctions and humanitarian divestment campaigns over Darfur.
For these and other reasons (for example, sunk investment, concerns about legal liability for failure to honor contractual commitments, fears of mismanagement by Chinese partners currently running joint enterprises without benefit of the supervision of the involved Western companies, etc.), many businessmen in the United States and elsewhere are currently considering a speedy return to China.
Many Chinese companies even try to position their products to have Western appeal.
Polish officials say that conflicts stem from the dominance of large shareholders in listed companies, the result of a spate of privatisation tenders over the past decade in which many of the country's biggest companies were sold to western multinationals.
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Even today the regime seems to think it's possible to know everything one reason they devote so many resources to monitoring domestic websites and hacking into the servers of Western companies.
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The country's current foreign-exchange system, which involves a fixed "official" exchange rate that makes the currency, the kyat, more than 100 times as valuable against the dollar as the black-market rate, is so confusing that many foreign companies have refused to re-enter the country even if Western leaders ease sanctions against Myanmar, the country also known as Burma, as expected later this year.
Its companies do not always uphold the highest standards, but again, many Western firms are no angels either.
Asian gaming companies, which are in many cases powerhouses in their own right, are seeking to expand into Western markets, and also looking to pick up technology that is well suited for their own markets.
Many IRGC projects are military in nature, and the group diverts much of the technology and expertise it acquires from Western companies for seemingly innocuous projects to unsavory ends.
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