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However, in a world of strategic competition, international commerce can be, and usually is, an instrument of policy, and its use in that context should not be denied simply because it breaches the sacred principle of free trade.
Today, he has much more competition.
In fact, the combination of freedom of expression and electoral competition is the key to improving democracies, because it enables systemic failures – not to mention leaders’ missteps – to be subjected to public scrutiny.
Indeed, that approach would ultimately hurt the consumer, both by impeding technological progress and eliminating price competition – like that from Samsung’s Android devices, which forced Apple to lower iPhone prices.
But the decisive step would be to take money creation out of the state’s hands entirely, and open it up to competition.
Ironically, the democratic opening began with Ortega, who unintentionally inaugurated an era of electoral competition when he lost power in 1990.
And, while the global market for human antifungal therapeutics is worth over $6 billion and growing, owing to population aging and growing risks from fungal infections, generic competition is strong.
Some evidence suggests that the prevalence of uncertainty may boost competition, thereby sparking innovation.
According to a 2007 study of Lebanon’s copyright-based industries, conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the main challenges facing the country’s software sector – an important part of its economy – include restricted markets, intense competition, a brain drain (loss of human capital), inadequate technology policy, a lack of government incentives, and rampant piracy.
Under free-market competition, one country’s successes in science and technology should not come at others’ expense.
But the terms of competition and development must be market-conforming, not market-distorting.
Could not the same be said of Darwin's theory of unremitting competition, which grew out of a society giving birth to free-market capitalism?
Multinational companies’ growing ability to decompose these global supply chains by function and geography, and then to reintegrate them at ever lower transaction costs, removes the labor-market protection that used to come from local competition for workers.
And the fact is that concerns over state aid and competition policy can be addressed only in a multilateral forum like the WTO.
Another multilateral forum that could prove invaluable to the UK is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a mega-regional trade agreement that provides for duty-free trade and includes modest commitments in areas like state aid and competition policy, without requiring EU-level integration.
The Israel-Palestine conflict, the competition between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the Sunni-Shia relationship all require mutual accommodation.
The central government will have to regulate and coordinate sub-national governments effectively, while working to ensure that competition is fair and constructive.
At the same time, motivated by their political competition and their own leftist ideology, these social democratic governments emphasize both economic growth and social inclusion.
A second term for the Frente Amplio would pose new problems, since the balance of power and political competition will be stronger, both between parties and within the left itself.
The reason why countries hit harder in the 1930’s were not more inclined to respond by protecting industry from foreign competition is straightforward.
Producers had problems, to be sure, but import competition was the least of them.
With the decline in trade, foreign competition became less of a problem for import-sensitive sectors.
Although much of the world recognizes that it is in economic competition with China, it often fails to see that it is also in moral competition with China.
Paul Romer, a former Stanford University economist best known for his Charter City initiative, has a scheme for building new cities from scratch – and using competition to spread the benefits to old cities over time.
The goal is not perfection in a single city, but more effective innovation and competition, so that the best cities prosper and other cities emulate them.
While the West and Russia still talk the talk of cooperative security in Europe, geopolitical competition for influence has been renewed in these regions.
That means not only increasing the clout of existing institutions – here, reform is a prerequisite – but also establishing new institutions, such as a Global Competition Authority.
Competition must be encouraged, as more rural entrepreneurship will strengthen the farming community, with fewer farmers but better farms.
They hope for an upturn in the economic climate, or to get a comparative advantage in the ferocious competition for first jobs.
As they crowd into Hong Kong over a short period of time, their presence may cause some difficulties for Hong Kong’s highly respected civil servants who try to maintain the high standards of Hong Kong’s market environment, with its impartial enforcement of the laws and fair competition.
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