Instead, Bush pushed for subsidies to oil companies to encourage more domestic production.

Media Companies linked to the government control much of the domestic media in Singapore.

We have been asked to open up our economies to competition from wealthier international companies with which our domestic companies have a hard time competing.

There was a strong need to improve the productive and supply capabilities of domestic companies, especially SMEs.

On the other hand, companies might face domestic opposition when they decided to move certain services abroad.

In fact, because most consumer goods are imported, it is unlikely that domestic companies will benefit at all.

According to the Chief Minister, the new Business Companies Act (2004), which replaces the existing Companies Act and the International Business Companies (IBC) Act, is designed to appeal to international clients, while providing a suitable legal framework for firms undertaking domestic business.

The absence of regulation in the market can be perverse, and suggests that domestic monopolistic behaviour in the wholesale segment by domestic companies could be replaced by foreign monopolies controlling the market.

Likewise, developing countries are concerned about any undue influence that foreign companies and Governments could exert on their domestic regulatory processes.

In a longer term perspective, competition helps domestic companies to grow, modernize and diversify, and it speeds up the learning process.

Indeed, one important channel for increasing local value added and employment is through the forging of supplier linkages with domestic companies.

Even so, a depreciated rupee will increase the burden of repaying foreign debt, and deepen the woes of domestic companies and banks.

The company was founded in 1952 to manufacturer planes for domestic sales, but today it supplies various components for foreign aerospace companies.

In Italy, the difficulties arise from banks continued lending to domestic companies, especially small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), while GDP has stagnated.

Natural gas is procured from Russian Gazprom (roughly three fourths of domestic consumption) and from Norwegian companies (most of the remaining one fourth).

Companies (domestic and foreign alike) should abide by the laws of the countries in which they operate and refrain from unethical business practices.

Reducing this tension over ownership of firms and assets is imperative, because the entry and expansion of small private companies will be increasingly important when China s domestic markets and domestic innovation need to play a greater role.

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In addition, fostering linkages between foreign and domestic companies is a crucial component of a policy that aims to maximize the beneficial effects of foreign direct investment.

In the large scale retailing segment, domestic companies still dominate the market the three largest retailers are national firms controlling almost 60 per cent of the market.

In addition, UNCTAD's work on TNC SME linkages was considered crucial to help domestic companies in developing countries to take advantage of new trade and investment opportunities.

This would not only reduce China s surplus and its need to keep accumulating dollar reserves but also give Asian companies an incentive to reorient production towards domestic markets.

For outward FDI, protectionism involves measures that require domestic companies to repatriate assets or operations to the home country, or that discourage certain types of new investments abroad.

Developing countries with robust infrastructure, a highly trained workforce, adequate intellectual property protections and appealing domestic markets will be the most attractive to foreign companies and their investments.

Moreover, multinational companies that invest in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Estonia produce cars, high end electronics, and industrial machinery both for the domestic market and for export.

Transparency would also foster trust between companies and local communities. So far, communities in the vicinity of extraction operations have often been hostile to the process, seeing themselves as the victims of environmental damage, while domestic elites and foreign companies are presumed to be the primary beneficiaries.

Given that companies cannot compete effectively in global markets without a sound domestic PRI, such firm level competition has driven countries to improve the national PRI over the longer term.

To consolidate further its national competitiveness and to enable the expansion of domestic capital, the Government initiated a regionalization programme through which Singaporean companies were explicitly encouraged to venture abroad.

Some of it is attributed to unsuccessful economic liberalization programs spearheaded by foreign companies and governments, but other studies and reports have cited bad domestic government policies more than external factors.

Publicists could work in large companies as in little companies.

A possible way to facilitate the match between local and foreign partners could be the setting up of databases which would list domestic companies that wish to establish partnerships with foreign partners.

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There also are railway services operated by private rail companies, regional governments, and companies funded by both regional governments and private companies.

Partnerships with foreign companies were designed to allow local businesses to benefit from technology transfer and training, while creating the most favorable conditions for local producers to add value to domestic production and exports.

However a post Second World War recession and popular unrest led to a return to populist politics and domestic military interventions in the 1960s, while foreign companies developed oil resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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(c) Within its work programme on investment, technology transfer and intellectual property, assess ways in which developing countries can develop their domestic productive capability in the supply of essential drugs in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies

To remain viable in the light of globalization and liberalization, domestic companies might have to export but also to invest abroad, and they would be greatly handicapped if they were not allowed to do so.

Official employment currently provided by the timber industry is small and limited to employees of FDA and a number of licensed individuals and companies involved in small scale processing of timber for the domestic market.

Russians accuse Europeans of taking too long to liberalize visas, blocking Russian energy companies access to Europe s downstream markets, instigating anti Russian sentiment in the post Soviet era, and trying to interfere in Russia s domestic politics.

Contrary to Western expectations, most of this domestic Internet censorship is carried out not by the government's Internet police, but by Chinese Web hosting companies, which are being held legally responsible for what their users publish.

Companies apparently recognize this.