"We've had such amazing growth because land expropriation is cheap and so is labor, " he explained.
At issue has been the expropriation of the country's natural resources to multinational corporations.
Such worries have been amplified by Argentina's expropriation last month of YPF, a Spanish-controlled oil firm.
If almost anything can be claimed as expropriation, they ask, what will become of national sovereignty?
Venezuelan dictator-president Hugo Chavez ordered the expropriation of two plants owned by Owens-Illinois in Venezuela on live television.
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Fifteen months ago, not far from Shangpu, the village of Wukan erupted over similar accusations of illegal land expropriation.
The third problem has to do with the messy legacy of the Repsol expropriation, which complicates future investment prospects.
The bill may even be unconstitutional, if the withdrawal of old rights can be shown to amount to expropriation.
Despite the government's flagging land-reform plan, there seems little chance it will resort to large-scale expropriation at below-market prices.
Foreign investors are harassed and work under the ever present threat of expropriation.
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An outfit called Seize BP has organised demonstrations in favour of the expropriation of BP's assets in 50 cities.
It has increased the tax on unfarmed land, and speeded up expropriation procedures.
Officials counter that they do not intend to seize productive land, and that compensation would be paid for any expropriation.
Although subsidiaries are technically independent companies once they are listed, the potential for the expropriation of minority shareholders is immense.
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Mr Khodorkovsky's captivity and the state's expropriation of Yukos form a linchpin of the political system constructed by Mr Putin.
Expropriation brought into its hands about one-third of the urban space in the national-capital region (a rough square around Ottawa-Hull).
Countless people protect their assets in America because of corruption, expropriation, instability, persecution, discrimination, and crime in their home countries.
If a Nobel prize is no defence against expropriation, that doesn't bode well for the security of property rights in Bangladesh.
The family survived and flourished despite expropriation of much of its assets under Chile's communist-leaning President Salvador Allende in the early 1970s.
The family survived and flourished despite expropriation of much of its assets under Chile's left-wing President Salvador Allende in the early 1970s.
It supported tough actions such as the expropriation of foreign oil companies in 1938 and the nationalisation of private banks in 1982.
It may also contravene a 1994 law guaranteeing British investment against expropriation.
Countries from Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador to Russia have shown that they can and do retroactively impose taxes on energy companies, or even outright expropriation.
The details of these negotiations are now being worked out between foreign oil executives and state officials in Quito as the threat of expropriation lingers.
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The Ecuadorean government will use expropriation and extended operating contracts as the stick and carrot to try to coerce foreign firms into signing service contracts.
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Both firms share a distant familial tie to big American drug companies with the same names although war and expropriation severed any formal links long ago.
Private farmers feel pressured from all sides threatened with expropriation, heavily dependent on credit and subject to regulations that, they complain, force them to sell below cost.
Scaroni says he can win at a game that has humiliated sizable competitors like Shell and BP with one-way "renegotiations" and outright expropriation of their reserves.
The constitution also establishes the principle of private property but leaves open the possibility of expropriation in case there is any public need that requires it.
There will be no construction beyond the existing construction line, no expropriation of land for construction, no special economic incentives and no construction of new settlements.
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