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With low interest rates, price stability, a more competitive exchange rate, a lower tax burden, plentiful resources for investment, and the reduction of electricity tariffs, Brazil is strengthening its potential for more rapid expansion.
Traditionally, contract manufacturers in China are scattered and fiercely competitive.
Owing to Putin’s cronyism and incompetent economic stewardship, Russians’ living standards have improved only modestly, the Russian economy is not globally competitive, and the country’s oil and gas fields have not been properly developed.
These developments do not constitute more protectionism in the usual meaning of the term, where private interests subvert the public good, as when farmers charge higher prices because competitive imports are restricted.
This continuous process of selection, like the process of selection of goods and services, does take place in a competitive way.
Now this competitive process, not only is capable but is actually meant to endanger existing structures and vested interests that no longer serve the purpose of demand.
In other words, a competitive process is a process that induces change, even if the existing structures and vested interests would like to eliminate change in order to continue their existence.
You always have this conflict between the competitive process on one side and the desire to eliminate this competitive threat.
They have competitive elections and improved human rights, and a much freer media.
But Japan and China also want competitive exchange rates to spur export growth, and the eurozone already runs a current-account surplus.
The strategic test will be for regional organizations – such as APEC – to ensure that the spirit of cooperation always outweighs the member states’ competitive impulses.
And, of course, Mexico’s competitive exchange rate is a key reason why it has become an export powerhouse, with the manufacturing sector accounting for 80% of merchandise exports.
The challenge is that the rise of online shopping will increase competitive pressure, regardless of whether big foreign retailers enter the market.
It was therefore a bizarre coincidence that the merger’s collapse came on the day that the Commission unveiled its new industrial strategy for regaining Europe’s competitive edge in the face of Asian and North American competition.
If that happens, the Russia-China debate might be revived, this time as a comparison of competitive decadence.
Compounding the problem, the diversity in banks’ capital ratios also indicates a dramatic distortion of the international playing field, as increasingly competitive conditions in financial markets have led to national discretion in applying the rules.
Hitler, after all, came to power in Germany in 1933 through a free, fair, and competitive election.
Nixon did not demand that China’s leaders abandon communism or that Mexico become a competitive democracy, only that they act responsibly and learn to do business with the US.
Still, even without a seat at the table, many of the world’s megacities – powered by strong human capital, competitive markets, and widespread appeal – are already working to build a more progressive, inclusive, and sustainable future.
When global values chains grow and new jobs are created, those jobs are distributed according to a country’s competitive advantage.
China could also expand its tech sector through homegrown entrepreneurship, except that the Chinese economy does not provide easy access to credit and is hamstrung by excessive regulations that make it difficult to start a competitive business.
In particular, “hot” capital inflows make it difficult for financially open economies like Brazil to maintain a competitive currency, depriving them of what is in effect the most potent form of industrial policy imaginable.
Globalization has always created more opportunities for the most competitive workers, and more insecurity for others.
In today’s highly competitive global economy, European countries’ relatively small size, aging populations, and excessive indebtedness, combined with a lack of energy resources and insufficient investment in research and development, mean that their high living standards and generous social-welfare states are in jeopardy.
But it is worth remembering that a weak euro is not all pain; it makes European businesses highly competitive.
In fact, recent evidence suggests the opposite: social and environmental responsibility can be a source of long-term competitive advantage.
But they have shown no indication that they are ready to relinquish the benefits of S&D, even for industries that have become internationally competitive.
But at the very time that many countries in the East are looking to German universal banks as a model, new competitive pressures in the West are rapidly transforming the German prototype, leading to new patterns of commercial relations between German business and finance.
In a quest for economies of scale and a strategic repositioning of facilities in order to survive in a world of fast growing competitive pressures, globalization adds to the process of corporate restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions.
German financial institutions now recognize that they need to be competitive with the Americans in their global investment banking capabilities -- including the skills of take-over finance -- if they want to get a hold of a large chunk of this highly profitable business.
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