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As former President Bill Clinton remarked in his State of the Union address in 1994: “[W]e measure every school by one high standard: Are our children learning what they need to know to
compete
and win in the global economy?”
In the case of the Japan-EU deal, one such country may well be the US, given that American companies
compete
in Japan with European businesses in many of the same sectors.
With its pursuit of research into the farthest reaches of the universe – deep space – South Africa hopes to provide further proof that Africans can
compete
at all levels.
By Freedom House’s count, more than 60% of the world’s countries are electoral democracies – regimes in which political parties
compete
and come to power in regularly scheduled elections – up from around 40% in the late 1980s.
For athletes who want to
compete
clean, the threat that they may be beaten by a competitor who is not faster, stronger, or more dedicated, but who takes a drug to gain the edge, is profoundly personal.
For China, this means respecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, allowing non-Chinese firms to
compete
on an equal basis, and setting its currency at a fair level rather than one that is artificially low.
One obvious culprit may be globalization and economic openness, which have made it difficult for countries like Brazil and India to
compete
with East Asia’s manufacturing superstars.
The resulting concentration of revenue, wealth, and power undermines systemic stability by creating too-big-to-fail entities, while hampering smaller players’ ability to
compete.
Rather than focusing on how to make firms better able to
compete
internationally, and so generate jobs, growth and prosperity, this supposed reform institutionalizes even more complications, moves matters one more step away from what an economy should look like.
For the same reason that Coca-Cola and Pepsi spend millions to
compete
– if both stopped advertising, their market shares would not change much, even if, obviously, it would change if only one of the two engaged in publicity.
While the election to the newly created Senate was entirely free, the opposition could
compete
for only one-third of the seats in the Sejm (the lower house).
To
compete
in a highly interconnected, increasingly knowledge-based, and technologically driven global economy, people must continue to learn and adapt throughout their lives.
In fact, it was this rationale that drove the Soviet Union’s massive nuclear buildup: Soviet leaders, recognizing that they could not
compete
with the much wealthier United States’ conventional weapons, focused their country’s limited resources on creating a potentially devastating nuclear arsenal.
Should universities be left alone to
compete
and survive (or not) in a global education marketplace?
But it is a market-oriented program insofar as health insurers and health-care providers remain private and
compete
against one other.
Are they missing the only opportunity we have to discipline the banks and force them to
compete
for responsible risk-taking?
The smaller actor cannot
compete
with the larger in terms of military might, but it can use violence to set the world agenda and construct narratives that affect its targets’ soft power.
But others view biofuels as an existential threat, because the plants used to create them
compete
for agricultural land and water that would otherwise be used to grow food.
Like many corporations, China is moving most decisionmaking to the "business unit" level--semi-autonomous, self-governing economic region-states that
compete
fiercely against each other for capital, technology, and human resources (just as America's states do).
This is crucial in a sector like banking, where perceptions about the soundness of an institution are fundamental to its ability to
compete.
Fair-trade products like cocoa, coffee, tea, and bananas do not
compete
with domestic European production, and therefore do not have a protectionist motive.
His environmental policies will make it harder for the US to
compete
in the green economy of the future.
Even if banking services migrate elsewhere in the eurozone, companies like Volvo, Siemens, and Total will still need London if they are to
compete
with companies like Toyota, GE, and Exxon.
Mexico’s traditionally strong industries, such as textiles, could not
compete
and were essentially wiped out; and incipient industries that had once shown great promise, such as consumer electronics, were crushed.
These companies
compete
in global markets with firms headquartered in countries that use business-friendly tax policies to attract the investments, income, and associated externalities of multinational companies.
Furthermore, while non-US companies can take advantage of the generous patent boxes in 12 EU countries, US companies would be subject to the much higher minimum rate, undermining their ability both to
compete
in these markets and to acquire foreign companies with desirable intellectual property.
As the US embarks on corporate tax reform, policymakers should bear in mind that other countries are using carrots, not sticks, to
compete
for the activities and income of global companies.
Amid much talk of a “post-American world,” many observers see a shift from a US-dominated international order toward a multipolar system, in which countries like China, Russia, and several others
compete
for global leadership on a range of common challenges and risks.
But the universality of the language of natural science cannot be applied to the study of human beings, where a host of theories and approaches
compete.
To
compete
in a digital global economy, the US – indeed, any country – needs a capable, well educated, innovative, and healthy workforce.
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