When most American businesses build manufacturing facilities or stores, or develop natural resources such as oil and gas abroad, they tend to hire local inhabitants, pump money into the local economy, and pay attention to local environmental and social issues. To build and sustain relationships with local and national leaders, they often will fund improvements such as construction of schools, roads, wells, and the like. They do these things not out of altruism (although there is some of that) but simply because it is good business.
