"For all the drama and hand-wringing about China and Middle East investment, they haven't broken into the top 50, " says Todd Malan, OFII's president and chief executive officer.
The food for which the enclave is renowned traces the route by which the Portuguese came to Macau--past Africa, the southern Middle East, Goa and Malacca--and by the ingredients available on the south China coast.
One place where Western oil companies have found open doors is in deep-water exploration, because state-backed oil companies in Russia, China and the Middle East have little experience drilling these tricky wells.
The company has operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Asian-Pacific region and North America, but China projects account for 83% of revenue.
There are some signs of hope: demand is falling in the rich world and slowing in fast-growing parts of the developing world, such as China and the Middle East.
Natural-history museums that are popping up in China, Japan, and the Middle East have been accused of being willing to buy from anyone.
We need to create a whole-government, whole-society approach that learns from and taps into the new global geography of innovation, the waves of innovation coming from Indian designers focused on the rural poor, the talent factories of a resurgent China, the petro-dollar-fueled innovation hubs of the Middle East and the disaster-honed civil innovation capabilities of Chile, for instance.
Not to mention a varied and unpredictable portfolio of international challenges -- from a volatile Middle East to evolving economic and security challenges in an Asia increasingly defined by China.
While worries in the Middle East have caused a spike, oil prices face longer-term pressure due to increased demand from China and other emerging economies.
Liveris has been carving out assets in Dow's lower-margin commodities business and placing them into joint ventures with partners in emerging markets like the Middle East, China, Russia and Brazil.
In 2013, new users are expected to grow by 21.1 percent in Asia-Pacific (including China, India and Indonesia), 23.3 percent in the Middle East and Africa and 12.6 percent in Latin America.
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The remainder of sales was derived from its distribution segment, which is comprised of 19 company-owned and 22 joint venture distributors that services and supplies its products to end-users in North America and numerous global markets, including Australia, Europe, the Middle East, India, China, Africa, Brazil and Japan.
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