According to the 2013 State of Women-Owned Business Report commissioned annually by American Express OPEN, the jobs lie in the hands of women.
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Ruling in favor of European-owned EADS opened the Air Force up to legitimate national security criticisms, not to mention rewarding a foreign state-owned and operated business for unfair practices.
In the American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Business Report, there are some fascinating statistics that point to the strength women are bringing into start-ups and running and owning their own businesses.
Weeks, CEO of Womenable and the author of the annual AMEX Open State of Women-Owned Business report, says that the increasing number of women investing will have a direct correlation to an increase in women-led firms.
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Mr Kloppers was worried about the Chinese government muscling in on the iron-ore business, since China's state-owned steelmakers are among his biggest customers.
The focus of the inquiry couldn't immediately be determined, but FCPA inquiries involve bribes paid to foreign-government officials or employees of state-owned companies to gain a business advantage.
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During a trip last week to Chongqing, businesspeople from different fields told me its economy is basically healthy, though uncertainty hangs over the leadership jobs at some state-owned companies, the global business outlook and efforts by China to restructure its own economy.
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Yes, HSBC had a pretty high profile and much-touted withdrawal, but Morgan Stanley just learned it will manage a multi-billion dollar privatization of SovComFlot, a state-owned ship construction and shipping business, and other Western investment banks are chomping at the bit to get a piece of the other asset sales that are coming down the pike.
Teruaki Oda of the state-owned Japan Finance Corporation for Small Business says that many small firms are beginning to develop products on their own.
Two separate cases came to light at roughly the same time this summer, both involving bribes allegedly paid by foreign companies doing business with state-owned firms.
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Having built up a consumer-finance business, last year it bought Meridional, a state-owned bank in southern Brazil.
In return, Beijing is getting engineering contracts to build port and road infrastructure, winning business for Chinese state-owned enterprises, and showing off what China is good at: building major infrastructure projects in record time.
He was a point man on relations with big business and some major state-owned companies, and on efforts to boost economic growth.
To hammer home the message of Europe's vulnerability, Putin sent his energy minister, Viktor Khristenko, to Algeria in January to discuss tighter business ties with its state-owned gas company, Sonatrach.
When China gets past the huge productivity gains that come easily from industrialization, it will find that inefficient state-owned enterprises and the heavy hand of government in business slow it down.
That is, Congress should hold out the carrot of normalized trade relations and other substantive inducements to those republics that move aggressively to liberalize prices, permit private ownership, massively privatize state-owned enterprises and generally create a workable legal and business framework for entrepreneurial competition as well as allowing for the free movement of their people, goods and capital.
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And once again the government seems to have got rid of a state-owned company without getting rid of its responsibility for that business.
Telecom companies face particularly acute risks when dealing with governments in countries where they rely on state-owned infrastructure or state-awarded spectrum contracts for their business.
The importance of such human investment is also dawning on an unlikely business sector: China's threadbare state-owned enterprises.
State-owned RBS has been ordered by European regulators to sell the business as a condition of securing its bailout from the UK government.
Ltd. in the western state of Gujarat, said his business was hit as several government-owned banks were shut.
Unfortunately for its new shareholders, chairman Jacques Friedmann was a longtime civil servant who knew little about the insurance business -- before uap he had run state-owned Air France and Compagnie Gnrale Maritime.
The state-owned broadcaster's move from an obscure part of western Beijing to a new international business district highlights its global aspirations.
When Ellis talked to him about working together in his business in the 1990s, Solomon had a steady job in a state-owned pharmaceutical company.
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Bearing the brunt of Xi's austerity drive, government officials and state-owned companies are stopping their banquets this year, and luxury hotels are missing out on the business.
Carlos Slim began his business empire when PRI president Carlos Salinas de Gortari privatized a vast number of state-owned companies, including Telefonos de Mexico, in the early 1990s.
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Syrian business has hardly changed in 30 years: some additional fat cats and the rest state-owned enterprises.
The stockmarket winners highlight that Arab business is no longer just about oil and not just because most oil firms are state-owned.
The only problem: foreign companies that compete against U.S. companies, such as state-owned oil giants, aren't subject to the SEC's regulatory arm if they don't do business in the U.S. That could put American oil companies like ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron at a competitive disadvantage to their foreign counterparts, oil advocates say.
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