Multinationals: of profits and politics

Companies from the developing world are one of the rising forces of world capitalism. They may be changing the rules of the game. So far this year, the flow of funds in corporate acquisitions between rich and poor countries is just about even - $128bn from developing to developed against $130bn in the other direction, according to data provider Dealogic. That’s a huge change from 2000, when companies from rich countries spent five times as much buying companies in poor countries as the other wa...