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What Companies Have Learned from Losing Billions in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, in 2010 in Borneo Churchill Mining lost the right to use land it had purchased and spent $40 million surveying when Indonesia decentralized its government and a local authority changed the rules. The case is now languishing in the World Bank’s investment dispute court. One executive at a U.S.-based