Showing posts with label foreign investment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign investment. Show all posts
Aug 15, 2009

A Global Surge in Tiny Loans Spurs Credit Bubble in a Slum

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By KETAKI GOKHALE RAMANAGARAM, India -- A credit crisis is brewing in "microfinance," the business of making the tini...
Aug 11, 2009

Asian Companies’ Thirst for African Oil

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Source: Chatham House A new report on the activities of Asian oil companies in Africa exposes the flaws in many general assumptions about ...
Jul 27, 2009

U.S. 'Money Weapon' Yields Mixed Results

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By Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, July 27, 2009 BAGHDAD, July 26 -- Shortly after the U.S. Army turned over co...
Jul 20, 2009

Jakarta Blasts Renew Security Fears

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By TOM WRIGHT JAKARTA -- The explosions that ripped through Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels on Friday raised ...

China Revs Up Its Dealmaking Machine

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By Dexter Roberts and Frederik Balfour Is China Inc. intent on buying the world? It sure looks that way. Just in June and July, Chinese ...
Jul 18, 2009

Bombing Suspects Spent Two Days at Hotel

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By TOM WRIGHT JAKARTA -- The suspects in the two deadly bombings here Friday checked into one of the targeted hotels two days e...
Jul 16, 2009

End of the Road: After Detroit, the Wreck of an American Dream

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by Ben Austen Bill Londrigan was a researcher with the AFL-CIO’s building-trades division when, in 1986, Toyota broke ground for its first f...