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No one expects venture capitalists to divert their resources to village schools, but perhaps they could focus a little more on training new employees rather than poaching them from the competition at inflated salaries.
In fact, the primary way a “market” approach can lead to bad outcomes, when venture capitalists destroy competition and actually harm the market, is through predatory behavior or the more common practice of buying competitors they cannot beat.
With his open contempt for Russian society – exemplified in his mocking response to widespread demonstrations – as well as his arrogance, readiness to stifle dissent, and fear of competition, Putin has singlehandedly quashed the long-held myth that he himself propagated: personalized power can modernize the country while preserving stability.
This comes down to structural reforms that spur competition, reduce unnecessary red tape, and make labor markets more adaptable.
The EU’s offer is no longer unique, and faces competition from other frameworks for integration, other actors, and myriad strategic opportunities.
The US and China are set to become immersed in a long-term competition for technological and strategic supremacy.
If this competition is left unchecked, it will surely have far-reaching spillover effects.
But, given the two countries’ direct and stiff competition in energy technology, taking advantage of this will require them also to find new ways to coalesce around joint goals for atmospheric stabilization, even as they seek to meet their own undeniable national needs.
What really worries the Trump administration – aside from Iran and North Korea – is the strategic competition represented by Russia and, above all, by China.
The Hollow Heart of the WestBERLIN – It is tempting to compare NATO and the European Union to the French and Italian football teams in this year’s Euro 2008 competition.
A case in point is the economics of two-sided markets, which involve competition between platforms whose principal “product” consists in connecting two categories of users, who then offer each other network benefits.
Moreover, exclusive dealing can increase competition by allowing two platforms to occupy distinct market niches, with the alternative being that one drives out the other.
The WTO, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund should be devising new approaches to address the growing influence of Big Tech; and competition policy needs to be brought into the twenty-first century.
Poor governance, weak rule of law, and state-owned companies’ assault on competition undermine Russia’s business climate and cause capital flight.
This discord is threatening to derail these countries’ burgeoning democratic processes, owing to growing competition between what Le Bon called the “sovereignty of the crowds” and the sovereignty of political elites.
At the other extreme is Mexico, where competition with China is fierce.
Indeed, for France’s political leaders, business amounts to a zero-sum competition to capture a higher share of total value added for owners and managers, at the expense of labor.
As exporters trained their migrant workforces, demand for their labor would grow and spark competition among venders rather than suppliers, thus fueling a virtuous cycle of higher wages and even more skills training.
Even in rural areas, there is now a wide choice of schools, and it seems that competition has improved the overall quality of Swedish schools, as non-public schools’ very existence has created a demand for reform of public schools.
This is all the more remarkable insofar as the principle of competition on which it relies has taken root in a country where competition within the area of public services has not generally been accepted.
The coexistence of disparate ideas cultivates competition and progress.
Competition and private ownership would relieve the state balance sheet of a large and troubling contingent liability.
Many laws on licensing, monopolies, competition, and state purchasing that target the sources of (and opportunities for) corruption are now on the books.
So can greater market competition, which has already lowered fees in major remittance corridors such as those linking the UAE to India and the Philippines, and the United States to Mexico.
Moreover, one of the main consequences of economic openness and globalization at the subnational level has been fierce competition between state governments for foreign direct investment, which has been regionally concentrated.
But many free-market economists are inherently suspicious of direct support for specific investments, instead harking after the pure and simple market solution – a carbon price set either by taxation or by competition for permits within an emissions trading scheme.
The new Basel III capital-adequacy ratios, the ECB’s upcoming asset-quality review and stress tests, and even the European Union’s competition rules (which force banks to contract credit if they receive state aid) all imply that banks will have to focus on raising capital – and thus not providing the financing needed for economic growth.
But, using its BREEP methodology, China has learned that rejecting one-size-fits-all approaches and promoting competition among cities is a valuable means of achieving breakthroughs in development strategies.
This process led to growing competition in the banking sector and a progressive increase in the ratio of private banks to public ones.
In the extreme case, this competition can take the form of civil war.
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