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The city also created linkages with others nearby, with each complementing the others’ comparative advantages, thereby reinforcing collective progress.
These comparative
advantages
may keep Japan above water for a while, but only until China or South Korea catch up.
The Hartwell group correctly notes that in order to be successful, our approach to climate policy should offer obvious
advantages
(“rapid and demonstrable pay-back”), appeal to a wide variety of people, and produce measurable results.
Clearly, a new approach is needed – one that capitalizes on the comparative
advantages
of the private sector, state authorities, and the federal government.
Indeed first-mover
advantages
are common in many industries, owing to economies of scale, or because they lock in a customer base, or simply as a result of sunk costs.
In many Arab countries, incumbent public and private firms – especially in critical sectors like financial services, telecommunications, and energy – enjoy significant advantages, including outright protection, onerous regulations that deter market entry by new players, and inadequate limits on natural monopolies.
Such farming systems have many environmental advantages, particularly with respect to limiting erosion and the runoff of fertilizers and pesticides.
“Anyone who gives even slight attention to the matter will easily see…the obvious
advantages
in the system….The various classes work together peacefully; socialist organizations and their activities are repressed.”
In short, the World Bank’s management and member countries need to work together to create a faster, more responsive institution, one that exploits its unique
advantages
to balance aid flows, provide counter-cyclical support, and offer meaningful advice.
While genetic modification is not essential to feed the world, it does provide significant advantages, enabling scientists to introduce or enhance traits – virus resistance in cassava, for example, or improved digestibility of feed – that cannot be realized with conventional breeding.
These cost and economies-of-scale
advantages
are almost impossible for competitors to overcome.
All members need to be able to exploit comparative
advantages
within the Single Market, attract capital, and generate jobs.
Such policies spurred firms to adopt capital-intensive technologies, obscuring labor’s natural comparative
advantages.
Proponents of free trade have always celebrated the growth of international commerce because they regard it as a sign that countries are capitalizing on their comparative
advantages
through specialization, which implies increased efficiency overall.
That is not to say that bigger and richer countries lack
advantages
over smaller and poorer countries.
A fragmented Europe composed of dozens of disconnected states, none with more than 7% of the population of China or India, would slowly lose its competitive
advantages.
FX markets have two important
advantages
in this respect.
But are there no
advantages
in being late?
This unbalanced relationship still has
advantages
for both parties.
Its current difficulties notwithstanding, it retains tremendous
advantages
– and in any case, the competition is not that much greater.
Like most Russians, he wanted the material
advantages
of capitalism, but had little respect or understanding for the rule of law and dispersion of power, which makes capitalist institutions work.
The US is better positioned than any other power in this respect, particularly when it comes to applying these
advantages
in its immediate vicinity.
The embedded energy infrastructure retains strong incumbency advantages, and markets do not value sustainability adequately or price waste and pollution fairly.
The process that produced our species in Africa granted it a number of
advantages
- syntactical language, advanced cognition, symbolic thinking - that favored its spread throughout the world and determined its eventual evolutionary success.
If, however, such
advantages
were dramatic and mainly determined by biological change, we should expect to find them reflected in the material culture produced by these early, anatomically modern populations.
In others, monopolies in trade deprive countries of the
advantages
of international competition, while monopolies in cement significantly raise the price of construction.
If that were the case, Sarkozy’s decision, regardless of the
advantages
to NATO or France, would clearly be open to question.
I have also emphasized that Lebanon must develop its comparative advantages, particularly in education, banking, and services.
But so, too, are policies to ensure that investments and economic activities are based on real comparative advantages, and not on transitory “beggar thy neighbor” incentive structures.
In fact, the risk of becoming locked in a protracted, low-intensity war against militancy and warlordism is likely to outweigh any geopolitical
advantages
that the US would gain from military bases in the country.
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