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This brings their structure closer to that of the advanced countries, introducing greater competition in what was once the advanced countries’ sole territory – the most sophisticated of value-added goods and services.
More significant by far is the competition for power that takes place in the bowels of the presidency.
True, many African countries currently suffer from instability, state failure, regional strife, violent internal political competition, and other assorted ills, including, massacres and large-scale brutality, civil war, massive movements of refugees, economic disruption, and environmental damage.
Nor is it likely that free-market competition between fossil fuels and low-carbon energy will develop in a smooth and predictable fashion.
This may be true when the economy is operating at full employment – when state and market are in competition for every last resource.
The Ambiguous “China Threat”SINGAPORE – For more than a decade, China’s geopolitical ambitions, backed by the People’s Liberation Army’s ongoing modernization, have fueled a debate about whether regional security dilemmas and competition – particularly with the United States – will escalate.
On purely economic grounds, subsidising EU farmers has no justification, and it is an increasing anomaly in a world of global markets and international competition.
Online markets have the potential to improve consumer welfare substantially, by fueling competition on price, efficiency, and customer experience, whether through search engines or single platforms such as Amazon.
To be sure, price discrimination will not happen for every good and service, and the trend could be tempered by competition from offline retailers or new entrants vying for market share by offering lower prices to everyone.
Making matters worse, rapidly rising capital and skill requirements for production, among other factors, is sustaining a trend toward less competition among companies across a wide range of sectors in advanced economies.
Paul Krugman and Elhanan Helpman introduced the previously neglected elements of imperfect competition and increasing returns to scale.
The shoot-out’s individual competition for heroism or misery is really alien to such a team game as football, but it is accepted as a necessary way to resolve the stalemate.
With the Soviet Union’s collapse, a unique opportunity to end the nuclear competition emerged.
To be sure, ensuring confidence, especially in financial systems, is essential; but regulation must be balanced with policies to boost competition, so that start-ups can easily enter the market and test new ideas.
Here, innovation and the conditions that support it – including competition and free entry and exit from the market – play an important role.
If policymakers choose a model based on a large state-dominated sector protected from internal and external competition, innovation objectives are unlikely to be met, adversely affecting future growth.
Similarly, EU competition policy has stood firm for many years against monopolies and abuse of dominant market positions.
Our mission was to create competition for Network Solutions, the monopoly player at the time, but we did so only in part.
In fact, we were building an orderly market, setting policies for how much registries could charge, fostering competition among registrars, and making sure that we served the public interest.
And increasing rewards for those at the increasingly sharp peak of the income distribution have not called forth enough enterprising market competition to erode that peak.
The problem is a broader failure of market competition to give rise to alternative providers and underbid the fortunes demanded for their work by our current generation of mercantile princes.
Decoupled economically, the US and China would have far less reason to exercise restraint in their geopolitical competition.
This, in turn, requires a proper procedure, based on transparent competition, for the initial sale of prospecting rights, as well as a well-designed tax system to collect revenues from subsequent corporate profits.
Some recent sales of prospecting rights in Africa have been spectacularly deficient in terms of transparency and competition.
They recognize, of course, the differences between a closed society, distorted by terror and misery, and an open society, distorted by selfish competition and trivial publicity.
This should lead to healthy economic competition with a rising China, alongside protection of US interests in the Pacific Rim now threatened by China’s expanding influence.
The most effective business leaders care about more than quarterly profits or beating the competition, just as the most effective government leaders care about more than winning the next election or grabbing headlines.
Cyberspace is another domain in which competition could get out of hand.
Think of powerful business groups vetoing moves to improve tax collection or strengthen competition policy.
Argentina exports corn, soybeans, fruits, and wine – as well as cars and auto parts to the rest of the regional Mercosur trade bloc, where it enjoys ample tariff protection against third-country competition.
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