Sentences with phrase «done by multinationals»

«When it comes to major genetic improvements in crops, those are done by multinationals investing huge amounts of money over long periods of time,» says Sparling.

Not exact matches

Small businesses generally participate in the nuclear industry by supplying parts to the giant multinationals that do the actual construction and processing.

«E-commerce creates the potential for even the smallest local firm to sell globally and, in so doing, creates an environment in which the benefits of trade can be shared by all Canadian firms, and not accrue to just large multinational firms,» the report says.

While the feds made an effort to curb corporate tax breaks a few years ago, they actually ended up making it easier for multinationals to pay less tax by doing business in offshore jurisdictions.

He doesn't know if it was a money grab or merely an effort by the CBSA to flex its administrative muscles against a powerful U.S. multinational.

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?

The report does not attempt to analyze the full Republican proposal, which still lacks many key details, including the individual income ranges for tax brackets, the rules to qualify for certain lower business tax rates and possible methods to prevent multinational corporations from avoiding taxes by channeling profits to ultra-low-tax countries.

Such poverty and repression do not deter investment by multinational corporations.

In a renewed economic order James Robertson sees the international trading and financial systems operated by the multinational companies, international banks and international governmental agencies as still important, but as playing a relatively smaller part than they do today.

US food multinational Campbell Soup Company is joining the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA)-- the first major brand to do so — in a move that will be watched carefully by food industry analysts.

A Problem Judging by the enormous market shares of the Big Four corporate coffee multinationals, a lot of people don't mind drinking lousy tasting coffee.

It is critical of the policies by the EU, IMF, and the power of multinationals, but so is PvdD which does well among voters abroad.

MPs are turning public anger about multinational tax - dodging on HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), by pointing the finger at the taxman's failure to do more against Google's «highly contrived» tax arrangements.

If you didn't tax profits when they were earned by the company, they could be deferred indefinitely leading to massive tax losses (and indeed, multinational companies do just that by parking profits in foreign tax havens so they won't be taxed until they are repatriated to the U.S.).

Science in the Big League, an essay written by Norwegian particle physicist Egil Lillestol, who has spent a lot of time at CERN, is a great introduction to CERN's multinational environment and the joys and challenges of doing science on such a big scale.

This unique adventure film depicts a young girl named Mija willing to do anything to save her best friend — a giant animal named Okja — from being kidnapped by an influential, multinational corporation (led by a transcendent Tilda Swinton).

These factors are the norm in international corporate and political issues, however, and will become the challenge ahead to draw new taxation codes that don't leave citizens of one or another country feeling ripped off by multinational business arrangements.

Yes, you have all worked very hard for very little return in building an empire to be exploited by multinational enterprises, but sadly, your job is almost done and it's time now for you to be given the «boot».

Scott Donaldson: So you do not get the entire benefit of global diversification by investing in just multinational companies.

One way to help diversify your investment portfolio is by purchasing shares in mutual funds that invest in companies based in countries outside the United States, or in multinational companies that do business around the world.

Merck, itself a multinational vaccine manufacturer, states in The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy that autoimmune haemolytic anaemia may be caused by modified live - virus vaccines, as do Tizard's Veterinary Immunology (4th edition) and the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.6 The British Government's Working Group, despite being staffed by vaccine - industry consultants who say they are independent, also acknowledged this fact.

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).

We are working to make sure the GCF does not fund dirty energy, and that it does not become an institution dominated by multinational corporations, wealthy countries, or Wall Street investors that would leave critical, yet unprofitable, climate priorities by the wayside.

Then a colleague on the Canadian civil society delegation pointed out that it doesn't much serve climate justice, only shifts the locus of climate injustice, if developed countries accept financial responsibility for loss and damage — then see their historic wrongs paid for by a farmer in rural Britain or a first - or second - generation immigrant family in Calgary who pay their taxes, rather than a multinational fossil that doesn't.

Significant matters / transactions include: Advised Xstrata South Africa (Proprietary) Limited on its offer to purchase Lonmin plc's entire issued share capital, # 5 billion Advised Telkom SA Limited on its unbundling of a 35 % stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited, R35 billion Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its acquisition by Bain Capital, R25, 5 billion Advised The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) on the introduction of BEE equity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Government

Although small firms can do much of what big firms do and at lower cost, the big firms are great at a number of services that smaller firms can not do, multinational mergers for one, but to do that work they do not have to become partly or largely owned by multinational behemoths.

It does so by holding multinational conferences, workshops, -LSB-...]

What they will do is help large multinational corporations maintain their monopolies by robbing and destroying their small entity and startup competitors (so it will do exactly what they paid for) and with them the jobs they would have created.

At this point we simply do not know what these multinational tech giants might feel they have to do to their security systems behind closed doors when / if they are being leant on by the full force of UK law — also behind closed doors, as CSPs are forbidden from disclosing the existences of Technical Capability Notices.