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It can also avert the strategic gaming of investment decisions, driven by, say, competition between regions or among suppliers for taxpayer-funded projects.
European competition policy, which successfully brought giant companies like Microsoft into line to promote competition, could help to turn Gazprom into a normal competitor, too.
The resulting “race to the bottom” reflects intensifying global competition for capital and technological knowhow to support local jobs and wages.
Small states are better at public policy adjustments, freeing up labor markets, establishing a solid framework for competition, and facilitating cross-border takeovers and mergers.
These dynamic giants terrify the wealthy populations of the industrialized world with the potential power of their low-cost competition, cheap products, and outsourcing of services.
Germany's Backward ReformsCAMBRIDGE: A successful economy needs quite a bit of competition and flexibility.
Yet attractive as they sound, competition and flexibility have their enemies.
Competition means that a society has economic winners and losers, and everyone feels pressure to perform; flexibility means that the status quo is not written in stone.
The US has embraced flexibility and competition with a vengeance.
The idea is that market competition among different educational institutions will increase the quality of education.
We praise competition, not monopolies, in economic life.
Competition in the rules that govern it might serve us better as well.
They are lucky that hostility to competition in what purports to be the homeland of free-market capitalism has kept Asian airlines out of their domestic marketplace.
This has severely undermined the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy, while hampering the kind of market-based competition that China’s economy needs to propel the country to high-income status.
The US and Europe are in direct competition with Brazil, China, India, and other emerging economies, where wage levels are sometimes one-quarter those in high-income countries (if not even lower).
Unemployment in the US now stands at nearly 10% of the labor force, in part because more new jobs are being created in the emerging economies, and many of the jobs now being created in the US pay less than in the past, owing to greater global competition.
In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, investment capital became far scarcer and efforts to ensure SWF transparency and accountability gave way to competition for their capital.
On one hand, universities are abiding by long-standing agreements with government; on the other, they face zealous reformers who seek market-based solutions that stress competition among institutions, encourage staff and student mobility, and emphasize student-centered learning.
On the contrary, oil scarcity is less of a concern today than ever before, owing not only to energy-efficiency initiatives, like the European Union’s nearly zero-energy buildings policy, but also to rising competition between shale producers and traditional oil exporters.
For example, former US President George W. Bush might have decided to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein for many reasons: strategic advantage, humanitarian concern, and even competition with his father.
Industries are becoming increasingly complex and global competition is mounting.
To many, its behavior in the region suggests a continuing competition with the Sunni Arab world for the mantle of leadership, often defined by a misguided and hateful policy toward Israel.
Displaced by new competition, workers have gone on strike in countries like Korea, where the old "iron bowl" of employment protection has shattered.
However fierce the global competition, they should concentrate on safeguarding quality and achieving excellence in research and education.
The dynamics of the next 5 years will also reflect a head-on competition between winning corporations.
The region is home not only to the world’s fastest-growing economies, but also to the fastest-increasing military expenditures and naval capabilities, the fiercest competition over natural resources, and the most dangerous strategic hot spots.
Asia’s oceans have increasingly become an arena of competition for resources and influence.
As the most recent US National Security Strategy report put it, “A geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order is taking place in the Indo-Pacific region.”
We must now conjoin self-interest with good intentions, especially because leaders in some countries (particularly the United States) seem afraid of competition from emerging markets even without any advantage they might receive from not having to pay for carbon emissions .
So you might think that US industries exposed to severe international price competition would deem the dollar's strength undesirable.
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