Multinational corporations outperform traditional corporations operating in just one country.

Ms. Myriam Vander Stichele, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations

It is more puzzling that some multinational corporations are also opposed.

The revival of traditional foods has attracted the attention of large multinational corporations.

The latter have become increasingly vocal and powerful, often represented by large multinational corporations.

Today, it is multinational corporations that are increasingly being cast as the über villains of our globalized world.

US expansion after World War II through the emergence of multinational corporations saw the establishment of the managerial class.

Recommendation of the OECD Council on restrictive business practices affecting international trade, including those involving multinational corporations (20 July 1978).

This useful policy reduces exploitative practices that sometimes enable multinational corporations and wealthy governments to obtain outrageous profits from indigenous agriculture.

Furthermore, strong international financial partners are indispensable to multinational corporations, which often need global cash management or support for large scale transactions.

Individuals and private organizations including WikiLeaks, multinational corporations, NGOs, terrorists, or spontaneous social movements have been empowered to play a direct role.

By restructuring their secondary schools and universities to train graduates with skills demanded by multinational corporations, Asian countries also create more competitive workforces.

Multinational corporations in Japan, South Korea, and elsewhere ship sophisticated parts and components to China for assembly and re export to developed countries.

Furthermore, it owns 11 of the 14 largest multinational corporations in this sector and absorbs about 80 per cent of the worldwide trade in electronics.

If so, then Hollywood s cartoon like caricatures of evil multinational corporations may some day seize mainstream consciousness, leading to political upheavals that shatter today s social contract.

Foreign direct investment. Modern China has long been a magnet for global multinational corporations seeking both efficiency and a toehold in the world s most populous market.

As globalization proceeds, with the help of ever faster communications, faster travel, and more powerful multinational corporations, a new, cosmopolitan social class seems to be emerging.

Indigenous organizations from all regions of the world stated their strong objections to multinational corporations that violate indigenous peoples' rights to their land and natural resources.

To be sure, sociopathic corporations have populated books and films for more than a century. But corporate villains, typically multinational companies, have never been so ubiquitous as today.

That changed when activists began targeting the multinational corporations at the top of the pyramid, rather than the growers (who are now merely middlemen squeezed by global companies).

By leveraging their massive purchasing power, big multinational food corporations drive down prices, not only impoverishing farmworkers, but also eroding the profits of the growers who employ them.

Rising youth unemployment and cuts in pensions and social expenditures come at a time when many large multinational corporations legally avoid taxes by shifting their profits to favorable jurisdictions.

Now, virtually anyone can enter an Internet café and enjoy a capability that was once available only to governments, multinational corporations, and a few individuals or organizations with large budgets.

Third, the free trade zone should encourage multinational corporations (MNCs) to expand their Chinese operations beyond factories China should be home to their design, distribution, and service divisions as well.

The United States controls 45 per cent of the principal multinational corporations around the globe, including eight of the ten largest. It is also the world's leading source of investment.

For example, US multinational corporations sometimes over invoice import bills or under report export earnings to reduce their tax obligations. Again, this would work to overstate the recorded current account deficit.

China, for its part, has become a major workhorse of globalization an assembly hub for inputs produced by multi country supply chains and an offshore efficiency solution for hard pressed Western multinational corporations.

Namibia s government, for example, while recognizing that the country will never build a strong industrial base, takes a clear, balanced, and determined approach to attracting, and getting the most out of, multinational corporations.

For example, multinational corporations use methods like transfer pricing (book keeping of goods, services, and resources transferred between a single company s branches or subsidiaries) to minimize tax liability on their profits from international operations.

As a result, world politics is no longer the sole province of governments. Individuals and private organizations including WikiLeaks, multinational corporations, NGOs, terrorists, or spontaneous social movements have been empowered to play a direct role.

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Moreover, even if corporations in the US are not hiring, corporations elsewhere are.

As globalization proceeds, with the help of ever faster communications, faster travel, and more powerful multinational corporations, a new, cosmopolitan social class seems to be emerging. These citizens of the world are developing loyalties to each other that cross national boundaries.

Dominica and other banana producing States in the Caribbean have had difficulties responding to the stance of multinational corporations from the United States and allied Latin American countries that have challenged the preferential access for our bananas in the European Union.

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Similarly, here's a multinational medical device manufacturer.

Are corporations or governments worse?

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However, due to the reality of globalization of the sales networks of most multinational corporations, procurement from developing countries may not always imply a net gain for the local economies, especially in cases where items so procured were manufactured and imported from elsewhere in the world.

Without such programs, the multinational squeeze goes on.