Sentences with phrase «by multinationals like»

More big - business engagement by multinationals like Coca - Cola (which pledged to invest $ 5 billion in Africa over six years) and Marriott Hotels, as President Barack Obama promised Tuesday in Washington at the U.S. - Africa Leaders Summit, won't directly or immediately help the impoverished and unemployed on the streets of Mogadishu or the marginalized in northern Nigeria.

Not exact matches

Attracted by a combination of low corporate taxes and inexpensive labour, big multinationals like Dell and Intel set up shop on the Emerald Isle.

Multinationals like British American Tobacco (bti) and Diageo (deo), which should benefit from a weaker pound, have run up, while domestically focused companies, especially in consumer discretionary companies and real estate, have been clobbered by investors who fear a British recession.

We put our money where our mouth is by investing our pension dollars in marquee projects like East Market, which is reviving an entire section... (Enclosed is) a letter from the Fluor Corporation, a multinational engineering and construction firm.

As an academic field, economics is owned by multinationals, hedge funds, Wall Street and the like.

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

This led to concerns that Kraft Heinz — like so many multinational corporations — would seek to make money not by producing something new or useful but by cutting jobs and closing plants.

«U.S. multinational corporations can defer paying tax on profits they earn abroad indefinitely by agreeing not to use the earnings for certain purposes, like paying dividends to shareholders, financing domestic acquisitions, guaranteeing loans, or making investments in physical capital in the U.S..

As for the conditions of Chinese workers etc that some have blamed on multinationals like Apple (and thus by proxy on Jobs), I thank my lucky stars I was born in the West and not in China, but does anybody really believe they were better off slaving in a rice field for 12 hours a day under hardline communism?

American multinationals like Apple can legally dodge tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year by parking costs at home while moving profits abroad.

According to every reliable forecasting agency, from the International Energy Agency to multinational energy conglomerates like BP, the rising demand for energy can not be met any time soon by renewables like wind and solar.

Many like - minded demonstrators acknowledged they have friends and relatives who are employed by major multinational companies like Volkswagen, but they insisted that the benefits of a trade deal would go disproportionately to executives.

On the international level he is encouraged by shifts within the World Bank (such as the hiring of Herman Daly) toward more ecologically viable programs; the spread of vital information through organizations like the World Resources Institute and the Worldwatch Institute and through various United Nations programs; world conferences on the future of the living species; and even stirrings among national and multinational business corporations.

He stated: «Business model like Uber's - based on predatory pricing made possible by exploitation of drivers and multinational tax avoidance - is immoral.»

Both the farm in Gross Lusewitz and the Üplingen fields are paid by multinational seed and chemical companies like Monsanto, BASF, and Syngenta to conduct field trials with genetically modified crops.

[It's] so popular, in fact, that it's now challenging global payment systems like Visa who've been forced to adapt by creating their own [rival] system here,» Opoti says, referring to the multinational's new mVisa service.

I also liked the real superhero being endorsed by several multinational companies - his superhero costume is full of corporate logo stickers (bit like the spaceship at the beginning of Species 2).

Only a cartoon character without a soul could actually defend large corporations and the wealthy who avoid more than $ 100 billion in taxes every year by setting up offshore tax shelters in places like the Cayman Islands (home to more than 18,000 corporations), Bermuda and the Bahamas that help giant multinationals like General Electric avoid billions of dollars in corporate income taxes.

And we tell ourselves, «I know, I know, I shouldn't shop in Tesco because they are an aggressive, monopolistic multinational, but it's just me, it's not like I'm changing the world all by myself.»

This adoption by contracted producers is not unexpected, since a handful of powerful pharmaceutical and agrichemical multinational corporations like Bayer and Monsanto, have gained a monopolistic control over the major commodity crop seed stocks, making available to farmers only their highly promoted, patented varieties of GE seeds.

Local homestays, «taster classes» in things like cookery and crafts, and a move away from huge faceless hotels owned by multinationals will ensure the tourist pound or dollar goes back into the community, as well as giving travellers richer experiences.

Consumerism was quickly defining the decade, and the modern brand was driving social culture, led by major multinational companies like Pepsi, Nike, and CNN.

i don't see why we, the civilians would have to make sacrifices when the multinationals, supported by governments, can get away with anything they like (can buy).

Parts of the green movement have become hijacked by a political agenda and now operate like multinational corporations, according to two senior scientists and members of the House of Lords.

If the Supreme Court eventually rules that litigation funding is permitted in Ireland, it will mean that Irish parties who are lawfully entitled to compensation, for example due to a breach of contract by a large multinational corporation, or mis - selling of financial products by an international bank, can make use of the financial resources and the strategic experience of professional funders like Woodsford to get justice from the Courts».

But as Vice Chancellor Laster might have expressed it regarding Big Tobacco: «Lacking lungs, they can not know what it's like to have them intentionally desiccated by multinational corporations solely intent on maximizing profits.»

Pirated Thoughts covers issues like video game creators trying to sue the makers of cheating software; TV shows fighting to protect the naming rights of a fictional burger bar; and multinational companies trying to protect their brands by making borderline - ludicrous trademark attempts.

Organisations like YCombinator provide a welcoming environment for talented and dynamic young Europeans in California while the EU's regulatory structure is dominated by massive incumbent multinationals like Goldman Sachs that use the Single Market to crush startup competitors.

There's plenty to love about Sony's brand - new Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact, starting with the fact they look nothing like previous high - end smartphones manufactured by the Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation.