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And at this year’s World Economic Forum Summit in Southern Africa, nearly 900 leading businessmen from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa, met with the new political leadership to map a way forward.
Unfortunately, under the far-too-long leadership of Guido Westerwelle, the FDP has degenerated into a party notable for defending the freedom only of a few privileged individuals: bankers and businessmen.
In a new challenge to de Maistre’s maxim, almost 200 young businessmen overcame the fear inspired by Khodorkovsky’s fate and donated funds to Navalny’s campaign.
By fostering ceaseless collusion between politicians and businessmen – the former providing favors to the chaebols, the latter providing political funds to the rulers – within this national objective lay the seeds of today's crisis.
Khodorkovsky is the fourth major businessmen taken out of action by the authorities.
By balancing between ex-KGB people and big businessmen, he seemed independent of both.
Now he has antagonized all big businessmen; he even refuses to meet them.
Once again, Russia's big businessmen have united behind Chubais.
One obvious explanation is that Chinese officials are extremely good at seducing Western businessmen with friendly gestures and generous promises.
To businessmen, engineers are practical problem solvers, whereas lawyers are obsessed with procedural complexities and intent on exploiting contractual loopholes.
But, while it may be natural for Western businessmen to compare China with other developing countries, Chinese citizens have much higher standards, because they do not regard theirs as just another developing country.
A third reason why Western businessmen get China wrong is that their admiration of the Chinese government is a reflection of their frustrations with their own governments.
Leading businessmen and politicians have been jailed, among them the former treasurer of the ruling Workers’ Party.
Already, dozens of high-level princes, former ministers, and wealthy and influential businessmen have been arrested and had their accounts frozen.
But the combination of popular indignation, courageous and independent judges, and a dynamic free press seems to be propelling the country along a promising path, as the irresponsible actions of politicians and businessmen are not only brought to light, but also punished.
Politically connected businessmen, such as the Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim or LUKoil president Vagit Alekperov, used their influence to make fortunes through resource extraction, state-protected monopolies, or privatization of government property.
Instead of working to achieve the diplomatic objective of defeating al-Shabaab, Kenya’s military, politicians, and well-connected businessmen have been lining their own pockets.
It all began with a wave of corruption charges, based on considerable evidence, brought against government officials, businessmen, and politicians’ family members.
Since last November, MBS has had hundreds of members of the Saudi elite – including princes and businessmen with international profiles – arrested on dubious grounds, and with no regard for the rule of law.
Finnish businessmen soon realized that they could make machines that cut other materials, because not everything that can be cut is made out of wood.
Many speak several European languages with the fluency of the international businessmen that they also are.
Kenyan businessmen complain that growth is slowing, along with foreign investment.
This was how central banking got started in the first place: letting the market and the market alone determine the price of liquidity was judged too costly for the businessmen who voted and the workers who could overthrow governments.
In contrast to this simplistic vision, a growing group of academics from the region's universities and businessmen such as Carlos Slim in Mexico, have proposed the need to reform economic reform.
A few decades ago, it was Japan that thought it was going to be Number One, and its businessmen, politicians, and bureaucrats were not shy about letting the rest of the world know.
Unfortunately, reacting to corrupt businessmen in this way sets in motion a vicious circle: more regulation may lead to even more corruption in order to avoid it; higher taxes on wealth will bring about even more tax evasion, making the system even more tainted.
This hardly amounts to an agenda to fight economic inequality and exclusion, and it is revealing that rich businessmen wrote the largest checks to support Leave.
Western businessmen, architects, artists, university presidents, and museum directors – or anyone who needs large amounts of cash to fund their expensive projects – now have to deal with non-Western autocrats.
Instead, a new group of Russian businessmen, mainly manufacturers, are rising.
They will become important as Russia moves to the next stage of growth, and so these new businessmen are demanding these reforms.
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