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The anemic labor standards enshrined in this agreement encourage firms to
compete
by taking the low road, a route that puts them on a collision course with China’s rock-bottom wages.
As a result, they will never be able to
compete
on price, and thus will need to emphasize quality, most likely through much improved branding and marketing.
Indeed, countries do not
compete
against each other in the way that firms do.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will not have to
compete
for the global limelight with any Brussels supremos.
American workers
compete
with low-wage labor abroad and with immigrants at home.
Until then, we should take a page from cultural evolution’s playbook and design systems that use variation and selection to make institutions
compete.
The Japan Association of New Economy, which I helped to establish, has concluded that if Japanese companies are to
compete
internationally, they need to be able to recruit from a larger pool of talent.
“Football is the one area in which we can
compete
with the big countries of the world as equals,” remarked Daniel Passarella, Argentina’s former national coach.
But for that success to continue, they will need to find more ways to contribute to the UK’s increasingly technology-driven economy, so that it can continue to
compete
with other advanced economies after Brexit.
For starters, there are the losers: traditional taxi drivers, who often have had to pay large license fees and thus cannot
compete
with Uber’s low prices.
This is not a new problem for the US, whose constitution is based on the eighteenth-century liberal view that power is best controlled by fragmentation and countervailing checks and balances, with the president and Congress forced to
compete
for control in areas like foreign policy.
Google and Alibaba now
compete
for the world’s top computer engineers, many of whom are European, in order to win the race to control the world’s data, develop quantum computing (on which the next generation of encryption will rely), to create more profitable applications of artificial intelligence.
The vast majority of working-age Roma, however, lack the requisite education to
compete
successfully in the labor market.
EFTA’s aims were a straightforward customs union and a common market, and it was designed from the outset to
compete
with the EEC, particularly in northern Europe and among the neutral countries.
EFTA had no soul, and that absence rendered it unable to
compete
with the incipient EU.
But the SLD must
compete
with Razem, a radical leftist party that was founded just before the 2015 parliamentary election.
In the Swiss system, several parties compete, but they do not aim to control the government exclusively.
I also expected to hear from business representatives about whether my proposed solutions – greater workplace flexibility, ending the culture of face-time and “time machismo,” and allowing parents who have been out of the workforce or working part-time to
compete
equally for top jobs once they re-enter – were feasible or utopian.
Import tariffs for cars will be raised from their current 25% - the highest tariff - to a prohibitive 70% for imported cars older then seven years, which
compete
with new Russian cars.
Despite the Spitzenkandidat experiment, under which European top-runners were supposed to
compete
for the most important EU job – the presidency of the European Commission – voters did not feel mobilized.
Pastoralists, small producers, and independent farmers simply cannot
compete
with low retail prices that fail to account for the industry’s true environmental and health costs.
But the companies argue that there is absolutely no other way to
compete
– they must either comply with censorship or discontinue business.
The problem is that service industries ultimately have to
compete
for workers in the same national labor pool as sectors with fast productivity growth, such as finance, manufacturing, and information technology.
Finally, governments must implement regulations that strike a balance between protecting investors and consumers, and giving banks, retailers, and financial-technology and telecommunications companies room to
compete
and innovate.
South Korea has excellent opportunities to build up health-care services and to
compete
in the global medical-tourism business.
With animal spirits – not the authorities – guiding it, China can build the high-value-added, high-tech economy it needs to
compete
in the future.
This means that left-wing populists are inevitably compelled to
compete
with right-wing populists for the support of exactly the same groups that turned to fascism between the wars: young unemployed males, the “small man” who feels threatened by the “oligarchy” of bankers, global supply chains, corrupt politicians, remote European Union bureaucrats, and “fat cats” of all kinds.
Another problem is that British exports (particularly services)
compete
on quality rather than price.
Moreover, the relative abundance of well-educated workers implies low initial wages and the ability to
compete
internationally in labor-intensive manufacturing activities – for example, in footwear, textiles and garments, and electronic assembly – which can form the basis for export-led industrialization.
All of them calculate the costs and benefits of their proposed solutions, and will
compete
to convince a panel of five world-class economists, including three Nobel laureates, that they have the very best solutions.
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