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Earlier this month, the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade Organization published a joint report extolling the benefits of trade as a driver of productivity growth, competition, and consumer choice.
Worldwide, the competition is about “who can go green the fastest.”
They view cooperation as infeasible, given the natural competition between destination and source countries for the most productive workers.
A new system, in which “reversible bonds” replaced quotas and desirability screenings, would diminish such competition, while mitigating the risks to destination and source countries.
As occurred in Japan decades ago, China is starting to face lower-cost competition, such as from Vietnam; its stock market is frothy; and Xi’s anti-corruption program, though popular with ordinary citizens, has led to widespread uncertainty about the “rules of the game.”
Their ability to develop institutions that support greater economic freedom, with more reliance on market competition and less on government, will likely be the main determinant of their long-term success.
Where adaptation to ruthless international competition and rapid technological change calls for flexibility and individual responsibility, the dominant culture in France continues to be one of assistance and entitlement.
Nordea tried to get the deposit guarantee rules changed to create a level playing field in which a cross-border merger would not distort competition between banks.
Despite having long been viewed as a result of the Sunni-Shia divide, the competition is really between two opposing political systems: Iran’s revolutionary regime, bent on changing the regional balance of power, versus Saudi Arabia’s conservative monarchy, which seeks to uphold the old regional order.
At the same time, however, Foshan fostered intense competition internally and with other cities in China, which may well be the biggest reason for its success.
As Foshan has proved, cities have a unique capacity to support growth – including by fostering competition, advancing innovation, and phasing out obsolete industries – while addressing social challenges, tackling pollution, and creating a labor force that can cope with technological disruption.
While it is tempting to scapegoat the common currency, the fact is that the euro has brought huge economic and financial benefits to Germany, owing to increased trade, greater price stability, more competition, and improved efficiency.
The FTC determined that, although Google sought an advantage over rival search engines, “the evidence did not demonstrate that Google’s actions…stifled competition.”
Such an outcome would be bad for competition – and for consumers.
The problems bedeviling the industry include pollution from emissions, increasing competition (particularly from communications technology, which has made business travel less necessary), air traffic control delays and inefficiencies, expanding noise restrictions, safety and security concerns, and an overall business environment highly dependent on fuel prices.
Many countries enacted regulations in the early 1970s to protect existing small shops against competition; as a result, the development of more modern distribution systems was delayed.
Indeed, these countries chains, forged in the fires of competition at home, now dominate emerging markets in Europe and elsewhere.
This impedes competition and contestability, undermines the diffusion of general-purpose technology, and blocks the type of adaptation and evolution that a dynamic private sector requires.
The kind of dynamic competition that leads to innovation is, after all, far from a centrally guided process, though public-sector choices in areas like basic research do have a substantial impact.
It seems to have evaded him that unchecked power might be more spiritually demeaning than competition.
Corporatist subsidiarity lets the top of the hierarchy determine its own powers, while banishing competition and lauding private property generates inequality and inefficiency simultaneously.
Even the preservation of the market itself requires more than self-interest: market participants compete to win, and if they could, would eliminate competition.
Free competition produces more wealth than state control; globalization prevents states from abusing their power and offers a degree of freedom that no state could provide.
But globalization has its downside: financial markets are unstable; free competition creates and reinforces inequalities nationally and internationally; collective interests, from preservation of peace to human rights and environmental protection, receive short shrift.
Competition inevitably tends to winnow out the less efficient firms and industries.
Many argue that regulations protect small domestic firms against undue competition from large foreign firms.
But the truth is that regulations are stifling even for domestic competition.
But policymakers must recognize that there are ways to protect small retailers without stifling competition.
Asian policymakers must remember how they successfully developed their manufacturing sector – through competition.
Rather than backing individual sectors, some countries promoted innovation with across-the-board subsidies and tax breaks, while opening their economies to foreign competition and embracing market-oriented reforms.
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