If anything, the gap between these multinationals and their Chinese counterparts has widened, Mr Nolan says.
Analysts say that though Singapore has been very successful in attracting big names like Compaq, Seagate and Apple, these multinationals are now reinventing their production processes, and Singapore is getting squeezed.
Like parvenus everywhere, these emerging multinationals often buy their way into the top ranks.
Investors looking for equities trading at a discount are more interested in US multinationals these days.
Besides driving away the multinationals, these deprived the region's state energy firms of revenues they needed to invest in exploration.
Even with these protections, our energy multinationals consistently record some of the largest income tax expenses relative to other U.S. companies.
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These results suggest that the domestic operations of U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and that these firms were reasonably well-governed.
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Multinationals are better at training these people than emerging-market companies, which prefer to poach them once they are trained.
Multinationals are organised more along business lines these days than on geographic lines.
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And one of the things that we're also doing is using our export arm of the U.S. government to help work with medium-sized businesses and small businesses, not just the big multinationals to protect their rights in some of these areas, because we need to boost exports.
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Multinationals are investing record numbers in China, despite these trends.
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But if controls don't necessarily stop Indian multinationals raising money, they do stop India's financial system from meeting these firms' requirements.
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Employing first Chinese graduates of these colleges as liaison staff (and later Mandarin-speaking African college graduates), multinationals should sponsor Chinese faculty research in key areas like petroleum engineering, manufacturing operations and international commerce, and seek out talented students from Angola, Zambia, Congo and Sudan.
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