Compete
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The idea is not new, but NATO countries have instead tended to
compete
among themselves with various types of tank, aircraft, and electronic devices.
This plays to one of America’s greatest strengths – its zeal to
compete
in new markets.
A distinctive feature of the Chinese growth order is that local governments
compete
actively against each other for jobs, revenue, investment, and access to fiscal and human resources.
To find buyers for all this extra oil, roughly equal to the extra output produced by the US shale revolution, Iran will have to
compete
fiercely not only with Saudi Arabia, but also with Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia, and other low-cost producers.
This is notably the case where entrenched groups - Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis -
compete
for central power.
As money dried up and federal programs were contracted out to private firms at higher rates, only the richest and politically most important states and communities could
compete
successfully for the scarce federal grants necessary to pay for services.
Even the preservation of the market itself requires more than self-interest: market participants
compete
to win, and if they could, would eliminate competition.
After all, the Soviet Union collapsed not because of Ronald Reagan’s military build-up in the 1980’s, with which communism was unable to compete, but because the Soviet command economy had already become obsolete in the 1970’s.
While East Asian countries like South Korea used such policies to enable selected industries to
compete
on a global scale, Latin American and Caribbean countries rarely got it right.
TheSun or Bild lack the esteem of the Financial Times or the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and evangelical colleges in rural parts of the US cannot
compete
in terms of cachet with Harvard or Yale.
The sanguine view is that as long as those selling expertise
compete
vigorously for the attention of discriminating buyers (the mass media), market mechanisms will assure quality control.
But countries such as Jordan and Lebanon (among others) are now educating workers to
compete
as high-skilled expatriates, too.
No other major established international currencies currently
compete
for global leadership.
Given that eurozone countries have lost the capacity to devalue their currency in order to regain competitiveness, any country that cannot
compete
must rely on assistance from wealthier states.
Rather than fostering continental cooperation and development, countries would
compete
against each other – even more than they already do.
The new members of his team were quick to distance themselves from some of the most controversial and confrontational elements of the Socialist's program, including proposed legislation that would greatly increase the power of labor unions, hurting Chile's ability to
compete
internationally and reducing its economic growth potential.
A decisive pro-women strategy would thus create new momentum for Europe, allowing it to
compete
with the United States and Asia.
India will never be able to create enough jobs in services alone; it must be able to
compete
in low-end manufacturing areas as well.
Here, the Chinese, hampered by a vastly inferior legal system, will not be able to
compete
easily.
Such countries evolve a hierarchical authoritarian society in which the only incentive is to
compete
for privileged access to commodity rents.
If they don’t, Uber will become an acquisition target or, worse, a zombie company, unable to
compete
with more vital competitors that learn from it what not to do.
How to
Compete
in EuropeLONDON – Interest in the European Union’s competitiveness did not begin with the euro crisis.
Productivity growth and innovation benefit countries not by helping them to
compete
with other countries, but by enabling them to produce and consume more, or to produce and consume the same amount with fewer resources.
Imports of cheap Chinese goods threaten to displace regional production, particularly in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors that are finding it difficult to
compete.
In an industrious revolution, inter-connected groups of innovators
compete
with one another to devise new solutions to existing problems, resulting in a virtuous circle.
Second, imports often provide cheaper inputs than what is available in the United States, which enables American manufacturers to
compete
better with foreign firms in export markets, and to maintain their share of domestic markets.
Because export-industry jobs usually require more valuable skills, and thus pay more than jobs in industries that
compete
with imports, the additional exports generated by imports create better jobs overall.
This allows them to fend off foreign competitors at home and
compete
more effectively abroad.
Germany and Japan have expensive skilled labor forces, but their firms are able to
compete
in world markets precisely because they can outsource high-cost, low-skill production stages.
And we think that the naming of a Latin American pope has the same underlying motivation – to
compete
with the growing threat of Protestantism in this region.
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