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But the fewer the number of distributors, the less competition there is.
Often competition is limited by regulations that fragment markets, but sometimes it is a matter of it being unprofitable to arbitrage to, say, bring in your croissants from Belgium each morning.
This system of “transfer pricing” has fueled competition among countries to lower their corporate-tax rates.
Tax competition is not the way to go, not least because it reduces the revenues needed to make such investments, particularly in developing countries, which, according to a 2015 International Monetary Fund report, lose out on more than $200 billion per year because of tax avoidance by multinationals.
Moreover, because Turkey borders on such countries as Iran, Iraq and Syria, it will bring to the EU a disturbing neighborhood: a part of the world incapable of developing a regional order on its own, a cockpit of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, a collection of fragile states imbued with nationalism, a field of competition for arms, even nuclear arms, a region where the US will remain strategically involved and where Israel will continue to provide a rallying point for anti-Western sentiments.
Previously autonomous regulatory bodies (such as the competition authority) have been quietly subordinated to the government, with no debate or discussion.
In much of Africa, density is not a problem, but in Rwanda competition for land, driven by high and rising density, was among the root causes of the 1994 genocide.
But, by and large, the developed democracies are characterized by competition between large parties on the center left and center right.
It is probably a good thing that structured competition between large center-right and center-left parties persists.
Adopting the euro in 1999 clearly was not sufficient, nor has rising competition from emerging economies spurred Italians to halt their country’s decline.
They then extend their product lines instead of developing new products; cut costs by putting pressure on their workers; lobby governments for favorable treatment; merge with competitors to reduce competition; and manipulate customers to squeeze out every last penny.
Closer regulatory cooperation may also help the US and the EU to confront what business leaders view as increasingly unfair competition from China both at home and abroad.
What is really needed is a top-to-bottom reexamination of the system, with an eye to changing excessively broad or stringent protections, aligning the rules with current realities, and enabling competition to drive innovation and technological diffusion.
More broadly, in an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy, public policy should seek to democratize innovation, in order to boost the creation and dissemination of new ideas and promote healthy competition.
His aim for the Olympic Games was to embody a noble ideal of world peace and brotherhood through athletic competition.
The Chinese leadership seems to be aware of this dilemma and is not, in fact, eager to be dragged into fierce competition with the West or its neighbors.
Quite a few foreign companies shout “piracy” when what is really happening is competition - ie, a company in a developing country makes a similar product but at a lower price.
Uganda’s importers, seeing the shift, have invested in new mills in the country, expanding employment and creating competition for farmers’ output, improving prices.
These rice exporters, including the US, also maintain stiff import duties, thereby protecting domestic farmers from global competition.
And in Mexico, structural reforms to increase competition in the telecommunications and electricity sectors, alongside other policies, have curbed inflation and boosted resilience to external shocks, and are expected to help return the country to a primary budget surplus.
Owners of capital control a rapidly-growing share of GDP, probably owing to higher economic “rents,” which reflect decreased competition and increased monopoly power in many sectors.
If open war is China’s only vulnerability in the South China Sea, the US will lose the larger strategic competition.
In Europe, where competition and flexibility are in short supply, indeed are disdained by political leaders, the central bank must be preemptive.
Although most national funding agencies lack imagination when it comes to European cooperation, several institutions are aware of Europe’s deteriorating research and the handicaps European scientists face in competition with those in the US and Japan (and also, increasingly, India and China).
This initiative, originally presented by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the magazine Nature , proposes to create a pan-European funding agency to organize international competition in “hard” and “soft” basic science.
Some theories also consider underlying institutional factors like property rights, market competition, tax and regulatory burdens, and the level of the rule of law.
Volume guarantees are one way to spur competition and put downward pressure on prices in such niche markets.
Second, protectionists have developed populist but logically questionable arguments that agricultural staples cannot be treated as tradable commodities subject to competition.
Competition presses each company to keep its costs down.
But in the last 16 years it has begun to reap the fruits of genuine democratic competition, because an independent judiciary and electoral commission gives people confidence that their vote can make a difference.
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