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Barrot received the transportation portfolio, a minor post far below the type of position - competition or domestic affairs - that Chirac demanded.
No one should be surprised that so contemptuous a French attitude, one utterly disdainful of the Union's Solidarity Pact and competition regulations, provoked a reaction detrimental to France.
That competition now features new Infrastructure Project Preparation Facilities (IPPFs) to accelerate and replicate large PPPs with a disturbing reliance on big dams and fossil-fuel infrastructure, such as Nigeria’s gas-supply pipeline to the European Union – a top priority of PIDA that implies slow progress toward a low-carbon future.
Whichever of these stories is correct, it seems clear that Mexico’s growth problem is not the result of macroeconomic instability, the absence of foreign competition, or lack of human capital.
Moreover, the relative weakness of the US welfare system makes the country more sensitive than Europe to the social consequences of job losses due to foreign competition.
Though US-China relations are highly complex, playing out according to a dynamic often characterized by competition and sometimes even confrontation, the two sides are no strangers to cooperation on matters of mutual self-interest – matters like curbing North Korea’s nuclear program.
If implemented properly, the reforms will create a more efficient system for the creation and enforcement of contracts, ease the path for market entrants, and strengthen the application of China’s competition laws.
Indeed, it could help to boost competition, encourage innovation, strengthen the financial system, and expand access to capital.
In this context, the kind of “meritocratic professionalism” that China is pursuing is important; but it is no substitute for genuine competition in the public or private sector – at least not if innovation and structural change are the goals.
This, along with enhanced enforcement of competition law, would go a long way toward leveling the playing field in markets.
The best-managed state-owned enterprises could emerge – or remain – as successful and prominent players, adapting to expanded market competition and combining innovation with economies of scale.
Their exports would become less competitive, and they would encounter heavy competition from the rump eurozone in their home markets.
Asia’s Resource ScrambleNEW DELHI – Competition for strategic natural resources – including water, mineral ores, and fossil fuels – has always played a significant role in shaping the terms of the international economic and political order.
But now that competition has intensified, as it encompasses virtually all of Asia, where growing populations and rapid economic development over the last three decades have generated an insatiable appetite for severely limited supplies of key commodities.
The intensifying competition over natural resources among Asian countries is shaping resource geopolitics, including the construction of oil and gas pipelines.
While strategic competition for resources will continue to shape Asia’s security dynamics, the associated risks can be moderated if Asia’s leaders establish norms and institutions aimed at building rule-based cooperation.
Competition for talent will increase.
As competition for talent grows and hubs of innovation spread, countries need to construct a talent pipeline that extends beyond their borders.
Most public-sector industries have been near bankruptcy until saved by competition and privatization.
Meanwhile, increasingly intense competition in the production phase drives down prices, so that the actual producers, whether employers or workers, receive diminishing shares of the value pie.
The problem is not that free trade has led to too much global competition, but rather that it has enabled a few companies to secure monopolies or near-monopolies.
The agenda includes an expansion of the tax base to reduce dependency on oil, an initiative to increase competition in media and telecommunications, and a constitutional change that will permit the state-owned oil company Pemex to enter into joint ventures with foreign firms.
This would not be a case of misusing a tool (a frequent occurrence in trade policy when interest groups lobby for protection against foreign competition); rather, it would be a case of using the tool in precisely the intended way.
Predatory Competition PolicyThe recent decision by the European Court of First Instance to uphold the fine and sanctions the European Commission imposed upon Microsoft in 2004 appears to have justified the Commission’s interventionist approach to competition policy.
The European Commission’s approach to competition policy won’t move Europe toward that better climate.
All are examples of fast-moving industries in which competition is fierce and great wealth is created.
And just as competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have been losing sleep over the Windows monopoly, Microsoft’s desktop model is threatened today by handheld devices and Google’s dispersed online computing model.
The only beneficiaries of government officials’ telling Microsoft how to make computer software are Microsoft’s competitors -- and not competition.
European competition law in particular allows policymakers to intervene at will, increasing uncertainty, damaging wealth creation and consumer well-being.
What is presented as a defense of competition results in advancing politically connected special interests and imposing unnecessary costs on innovation.
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