Given the profit margin of multinationals, Robert Pollin and his colleagues found that an increase in wages for the workers in the apparel industry in developing countries can be absorbed.
We prespecified a rate ratio of 1.3 as the primary threshold, which was used as non-inferiority margin in the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term (MEDAL) programme.
For the primary outcome of myocardial infarction, the confidence that the increase in risk associated with the evaluated non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs does not exceed 30% (the risk increase used as non-inferiority margin in the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term programme 16) is sufficiently high only for naproxen.
Suppose a U.S. multinational wants to sell high-margin Chinese-made products to German customers.
Because pharmaceutical firms enjoy high profit margins percentages, most multinational biopharmaceutical companies have significant absolute financial "means" or resources to deploy, including large cash balances, borrowing capacity, and stock market values.
The market share and profit margins of the multinational conglomerates that brew sub-premium beer -- which actually invented the whole category -- have been shrinking for years.
When talking with an academic who researches human-smuggling, Lee writes, "I got the sense that human-smuggling organizations are like any other multinational shipping enterprise, with investors, profit margins, international divisions, hubs and local outsourcing.
In the Philippines, local manufacturers are able to satisfy consumer preferences and compete against multinationals by discounting the price of toothpaste by as much as 55% against global brands; and typically receive a 40% profit margin compared to 70% for multinational producers [ 38].
Most will agree that a rate ratio of 1.3 indicates a clinically relevant increase in risk as was used as the upper bound of the non-inferiority margin by studies in the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term programme, 16 and we are confident that several drugs are associated with a risk increase higher than this margin for several outcomes.
That implies the formation of closer relationships with multinational clients if it is to sustain profit margins.
Although small relative to the developed world, wages paid in factories serving multinationals like Nike exceed, often by a wide margin, those prevailing in the surrounding economy.
