And Iran has an interest here as well, because Iran is a multinational state as well.
Africa can now expect multinational and state-owned companies from developed and developing states to compete for access to African consumers and favorable investment terms.
The US federal government has passed legislation to make telecommuting easier and multinational firms, like State Street (NYSE:STT), are instituting programs to let employees choose when and where they work.
One possible reason for this gap is that a large portion of the economy is still under state or foreign multinational control, which crowds out opportunities for local entrepreneurs.
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Bangalore in Karnataka state is home to multinational firms like Microsoft, Coca Cola, IBM and Hewlett Packard.
The report singles out the state oil company Sonangol, with which multinational oil firms are obliged to work in partnership.
Deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the multinational force in Iraq and the Bush administration's Iraq Survey Group had been ordered to investigate the disappearance of the explosives.
The In Amenas plant - a joint venture between state-owned oil firm Sonatrach, UK multinational BP and Norway's Statoil - has been operating since 2006 and has a production capacity of nine billion cubic meters per year.
The Amsterdam ArenA group has a partnership with Braskem's parent company Odebrecht and the multinational Petrobras to develop the renovated Fonte Nova stadium in Bahia state for the World Cup.
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One avoidable complication comes from state ownership, which may or may not give a multinational company a significant advantage but triggers anxieties.
This time it was made in South Carolina, marking the first time a commercial airplane from the Chicago-based multinational airplane manufacturer was made in a southern U.S. state.
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As Lyn Arscott, head of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, points out, multinational energy companies rely on government concessions to dig their wells: where state-run health care is collapsing, companies can win praise, and contracts, by taking up the slack.
Order the Departments of State and Justice to report on their involvement in standards-setting and multinational organizations to advance these goals.
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To cite but one example, on December 12-14, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is convening a meeting with representatives of theBrotherhood's multinational official counterpart, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The court also has acted on attorneys' requests to have multinational forces and the Regime Crimes Liaison Office -- the arm of the U.S. State Department charged with assisting the court -- involved in security operations, the official added.
Thanks to timely economic and financial reforms and shedding some of its nanny-state image, Singapore has stolen much of Hong Kong's limelight and pinched a number of its multinational corporations.
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