The Cape Verdean government has taken steps in recent years to promote foreign investment in tourism infrastructure, resulting in large scale development on a few of the ten principal islands.
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"The principal motivation and the primary competitive justification for BP-Amoco and Exxon-Mobil is to gain the necessary scale to undertake larger and riskier global exploration and development projects that become available, " says Philip K. Verleger Jr.