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This new flexibility provides an incentive to reform as fast as possible, and the Commission explicitly contemplates a competition of sorts: some countries may be able to catch and leapfrog the early leaders, who may be delayed if they slacken their efforts.
According to this view, the US is especially well positioned to benefit from rapidly falling prices of information technology, owing to its openness to competition and new ways of doing business, particularly in distribution.
Of course, institutional differences between America and Western Europe do exist: in the regulation of labor, in restrictions on land-use and redevelopment, in the tolerance of competition authorities for resale price maintenance and related practices.
Moreover, government agencies operate in many areas in which they face little competition – and thus little pressure to innovate.
Why not bring greater private-sector involvement, or at least competition, into government?
This was not a case of mere nationalism but of a class monopoly fearing competition from outside.
That is why the success of “Abenomics” hinges not on the short-term stimulus provided by aggressive monetary expansion and fiscal policies, but on a program of structural reform that increases competition and innovation, and that combats the adverse effects of an aging population.
Quintarelli emphasizes that, “Effective competition is a powerful tool to increase and defend biodiversity in the digital space.”
By forecasting medication needs, aggregating orders, and promoting competition, in combination with intense advocacy, policymakers and providers were able to secure market efficiencies.
In a study of the congressional vote on the McFadden Act of 1927, which sought to boost competition in lending, Rodney Ramcharan of the US Federal Reserve and I found that legislators from districts with a highly unequal distribution of land holdings – farming was the primary source of income in many districts then – tended to vote against the act.
More inequality led legislators, at least in that case, to prefer less competition and less expansion in lending.
And we found that counties with less bank competition experienced a milder farmland boom, and therefore a smaller bust in the years before the Great Depression.
They benefited from limiting competition and controlling access to finance.
They preferred less competition in credit markets not out of concern for the unwitting farmers, but in order to defend powerful lenders’ profits.
Because insiders gain the full benefits that arise through lobbying for lax corporate governance rules, while their firms bear most of the costs of such lobbying, insiders have an advantage in the competition for influence over politicians.
Its violations include maintaining nontariff barriers to keep out foreign competition; subsidizing exports; tilting the domestic market in favor of Chinese companies; pirating intellectual property; using antitrust laws to extort concessions; and underwriting acquisitions of foreign firms to bring home their technologies.
The fairness of the competition improves perceptions of legitimacy.
Moreover, under conditions of fair competition, the process of creative destruction tends to pull down badly managed inherited wealth, replacing it with new and dynamic wealth.
Locked in geopolitical competition, neither country would be willing to budge.
Such a high valuation can be justified if SKS provides a better service than the competition, but darker interpretations are possible.
Donald Trump’s incoming US administration, for its part, should focus on opening up competition, not just cutting regulations.
The purpose of the meeting was for Congress to understand what steps the Obama administration was taking to protect American workers from being forced into unfair competition with workers from low-wage trading partners.
Having used these rights to raise our own living standards, we should not now put developed countries’ workers in direct competition with workers who lack the basic freedoms needed to improve their own conditions.
For example, pharmaceutical companies have insisted that the TPP force all countries to grant 12-year patents on prescription drugs – increasing their profits while delaying competition from cheaper generic versions.
Italian taxi drivers would be prepared to allow more competition if they were sure that Italian pharmacy owners were willing to do likewise.
The poor international environment hit Brazil’s economy mainly via foreign trade, aggressive competition in the Brazilian market, and echoes of the negative expectations prevailing in advanced countries.
To this end, he stripped the political system of competition, emasculated state institutions, marginalized the opposition, and basically eliminated public participation.
Technological change and global competition have made it impossible for American workers to get good jobs without strong skills.
For we often sought to import tried and tested Western practices -- private property, the free market, competition, strict observance of human rights, the creation of civil society, representative democracy -- in diluted forms that would somehow help us maintain elements of Socialism.
That year, India began to dismantle state planning, allow for open international trade, and encourage competition among private industry.
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