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That “something” is being competitive in world markets.
Rather, she simply understands that for an economy that needs to stay competitive, bad-mouthing the euro and the ECB sends the wrong signals.
A new Franco-German axis that makes France more competitive is just what Europe needs.
Of course, a new competitive landscape will create winners and losers.
Tougher automotive standards will help the European car industry remain competitive.
India’s competitive advantages in the new global economy are well known.
One of America’s last competitive cultural exports, it seems, is the post-adolescent male escape fantasy.
During the 2000’s, rapid growth in emerging markets boosted business and consumer demand for many services in which US multinationals are strongly competitive.
While only a handful of schools will be affected, the hardest hit include major centers of research like MIT, the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Stanford – the very institutions the US must rely on to maintain a competitive advantage.
American politicians denounced it as predatory;Europeans saw it as a step on the road to competitive devaluations.
Given that private firms enjoy no such official protections and thus play on a field that is nowhere near level, they must be substantially more productive and competitive than the SOEs.
While higher US interest rates will attract some investors, others will move away from the dollar if the combination of a more competitive euro, the ECB's enormous monetary stimulus, and an easing of fiscal pressures in France, Italy, and Spain generates a genuine economic recovery in Europe.
Imanishi argued that nature is inherently harmonious rather than competitive, with species forming an ecological whole.
Ever since, a country that had never truly experienced democratic rule has enjoyed all the charms and vicissitudes of competitive elections, legislative battles, and rotation in power.
By contrast, countries like China and India, which avoided a surge of capital inflows, managed to maintain highly competitive domestic currencies, and thereby kept profitability and investment high.
What distinguishes these social democratic governments from their populist counterparts is that they are composed of a left that is integrated into competitive, multi-party democracies.
With a less competitive currency, many analysts hope, China will export less and import more, making a positive contribution to the recovery of the US and other economies.
If the renminbi were to gain in value, poor countries’ exports would become more competitive, and their economies would become better positioned to reap the benefits of globalization.
Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive.
Other countries enjoyed housing and consumption booms on the back of cheap credit, making them less competitive.
Greater flexibility, according to this view, will enable French firms to adjust more efficiently to changing market conditions, which in turn will make them more competitive and dynamic, giving the French economy a boost.
A truly competitive European banking system would provide incentives for the larger and stronger banks to take more risks in the hope of growing even larger and stronger.
If a government sprang from reasonably fair elections and the elected government is able to fill the most important political offices, the country is deemed "electorally competitive."
Electorally competitive countries are not necessarily democratic: some do not fully control the state's territory; others violate both their constitutions and human rights.
A non-Arab Muslim country in the period from 1972 to 2000 was almost 20 times more likely to be electorally competitive than an Arab Muslim-majority country.
Finally, some Arab countries are not electorally competitive now but once did use free and fair elections to fill the state's most politically powerful offices (Lebanon).
Others seemed close to doing so (Yemen, Morocco, and Jordan) or had a possible political opening but are now substantially farther away from being electorally competitive (Egypt and, arguably, Algeria).
Commitments to transparent privatization auctions and competitive bidding for procurement reduce the scope for rent-seeking behavior.
The two economies are highly complementary, not competitive, and transactions between the two are already a matter of daily routine.
But “US efforts to get China to shed these objectives sound hypocritical when the United States seems to be opting for excess stimulus itself....[I]f the People’s Bank and the Fed tightened in coordination with most central banks, domestic [Chinese] concerns about competitive depreciation would be muted...”China’s policy of export subsidies through currency manipulation was always bound to become unsustainable in the long run because it was bound to generate substantial domestic inflation.
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