Miners operating in Zimbabwe came under pressure after president Robert Mugabe said he would implement plans to sell up to 51% of foreign owned companies to local people.
It's also an attempt to apply political pressure on foreign owned Internet companies to provide U.K. security services with backdoors into their services.
As detailed recently by the Los Angles Times, the AP and others, this includes a plethora of state subsidies to well connected businesses, from politically active Dairy farmers and strip mall speculators to foreign owned pipeline companies.
The location of foreign owned houses is linked to the geography of ethnic clusters as well as areas where high potential investment returns are perceived.
Partly that's because pharma is very capital-intensive, employing very few people — and the capital is foreign owned, so that the contribution to Gross National Product, which deducts income paid to foreigners, is smaller than the contribution to Gross Domestic Product, which doesn't.
Though about $40 billion worth of Argentina's bonds were classified as foreign owned when the country started to lower its interest payments last month, many of the bonds might in fact be owned by Argentines.
India joined the WTO in 1995 and in 2005 upped the amount a foreign telecom could own to 74%, from 49%.
In a review of micro data on spillovers from foreign-owned to domestically owned firms, conclude that the effects are mostly negative.
The basic reason for examining spillovers from foreign-owned to domestically owned firms is to grasp the involvement of inward foreign direct investment to host-country economic growth.
He expects further substantial interest rate cuts in the course of the year.Lower rates will not necessarily encourage Chile's banks, some of which are foreign-owned, to lend.
The Hungarian government has since forced banks holding forex mortgages, most of them foreign-owned, to convert them into forints at favourable rates.
