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We need opportunity and competition, not the growth of powerful monopolies, in order to promote technological progress in a way that does not leave a large number of people behind.
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, for example, is holding an international competition – called eduapp4Syria – to develop smartphone applications that “can build foundational literacy skills in Arabic and improve psychosocial wellbeing for Syrian refugee children aged five to 10.”Similarly, in Lebanon, the Beirut-based non-profit organization Sawa for Development and Aid, facilitates the work of NaTakallam, a service that offers unemployed Syrian refugees a chance to work as Arabic tutors.
Without a common fiscal authority, the single market opened the way to tax competition – a race to the bottom to attract investment and boost output that could be freely sold throughout the EU.
It is almost an instinct among some politicians and business leaders that if competition is deemed unfair, the European Commission should marshal new trade defenses.
In the absence of international competition regulations to prevent predatory pricing and other anti-competitive activities, trade defenses are a second-best option.
Anti-dumping measures are frequently used against products that are simply so cheap that they pose a threat to European producers, even though that is no more than fair competition.
International trade is by definition a competition between companies on an uneven playing field.
In reality, what they don’t like is competition itself, and they fight it by deploying an instrument that can inflict even greater damage on themselves.
That is why domestic competition policies typically require evidence of anti-competitive practices or the likelihood of successful predation.
Aren’t firms that despoil the environment, use child labor, or provide hazardous employment conditions also a source of unfair competition?
Amid increasingly intense international competition to attract foreign investment, reducing the corporate tax would actually increase Japan’s tax revenues, by spurring companies to invest their vast cash stockpiles in more productive activities.
Many Chinese seem to believe that market discipline will bring fair competition and contribute to closing the widening gap between rich and poor.
And almost 40% of firms surveyed by the World Bank lament the constraints imposed by competition from informal firms.
In order to survive international tax competition – and thus be able to rely on corporate taxes as a source of revenue – Japan’s corporate-tax rate should be lowered in the long run.
Securely fenced off from real political competition, Putin cannot return to the Kremlin as “the president of hope,” as he styled himself in 2000, at the beginning of his first term.
The problem is that the principle of free and fair competition that characterizes the developed world is subversive of the Russian state that Putin has built – a state based on the merger of government and business.
And yet, it is also a region with a distant history of great economic and cultural achievement in the Silk Road era, and that recently has emerged as a focus of renewed global competition reminiscent of the Cold War.
Thus far, it has fallen behind in the economic competition with the South, but it hopes its nuclear status will change the balance.
That they should be high is obvious - America's economy has been expanding for 100 months without interruption, technology and competition abound, initiative is plentiful and consumers spend everything they get in pay and more.
It was advanced countries that imposed tariffs against "unfair" competition from abroad.
In the late 19th century, Europe's land-based aristocracy was weakened by the competition of cheap grain and other foods shipped across the oceans.
So it mobilized small-scale farmers, artisans, and small producers who shared the landed elite's belief that unfettered competition was harmful.
For their members, international competition is a major threat as imports or immigrants may cut the wages of less skilled workers.
Consequently a demand for the exclusion of the products of "unfair competition" is transmitted to main-stream center-left parties, such as the French Socialists or America's Democrats.
In addition to the injection of $12 billion into replenishing the country’s foreign-currency reserves and enacting new market-oriented policies to encourage competition, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s government has introduced some far-reaching measures.
Lowering health-care costs thus requires greater competition in the pharmaceutical industry – and that means allowing the manufacture and distribution of generic drugs.
Instead, the Obama administration is seeking a trade deal with India that would weaken competition from generics, thereby making lifesaving drugs unaffordable for billions of people – in India and elsewhere.
Major multinational pharmaceutical companies have long been working to block competition from generics.
In fact, the threat of competition from Indian generics is partly responsible for major pharmaceutical companies’ decision to make some of their drugs available to the world’s poor at low prices.
If the Obama administration succeeds in forcing India to strengthen its patent laws, the change would harm not only India and other developing countries; it would also enshrine a grossly corrupt and inefficient patent system in the US, in which companies increase their profits by driving out the competition – both at home and abroad.
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