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CAIRO – Everything about Egypt’s revolution has been unexpected, and the first-round results in the country’s first-ever competitive presidential election are no different.
By instituting open, competitive, and transparent bidding, the department has saved 2.5 billion pesos from 3,692 projects nationwide in the past year.
The negotiations, known as the Round Table Talks, led to the Communist world’s first competitive – though not entirely free – parliamentary election, on June 4, 1989.
The government has learned the hard lesson that big privatized companies, when unchecked by truly competitive markets, concentrate too much power.
Reducing the top US federal rate, currently at 35%, to a more competitive level – the OECD average is around 25% – would encourage investment and job creation in the US by both domestic and foreign MNCs.
The worldwide system puts US-based MNCs at a competitive disadvantage.
Given increasing globalization of business activity; the rising importance of intangible capital that is difficult to price and easy to move (for example, patents and brands); competitive cuts in national corporate tax rates; and the spread of tax havens, income shifting and the resulting tax-base erosion have become a major policy concern throughout the OECD.
The US last reformed its business tax code in 1986, when it had one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world and the competitive dynamics of the global economy were very different.
That way, once constraints on new industries are removed, private firms in those industries quickly become competitive domestically and internationally.
The question then becomes how to identify competitive industries and how to formulate and implement policies to facilitate their development.
The government should also pay attention to the development by private enterprises of new and competitive products, and support the scaling up of successful private-sector innovations in new industries.
Our approach provides policymakers in developing countries with a framework to tackle the daunting coordination challenges inherent in the creation of new, competitive industries.
And, fourth, countries that are no longer competitive can exit Europe’s monetary union and depreciate their new currency.
But, according to research by Robert Benewick, a professor at the University of Sussex in England, village elections have been growing more competitive, with a greater number of independent candidates and increasing use of the secret ballot.
For those elections that have been genuinely competitive, researchers claim to have found evidence of positive effects.
Competitive elections for lower-level party posts have already been held, with votes for provincial and national party congresses showing electoral slates with 15-30% more candidates than positions.
We must not forget that the multilateral trading system – along with the Bretton Woods institutions – was originally created to avoid a repeat of the protectionism and competitive devaluations of the 1930’s that plunged the world into depression.
This would give it a competitive tax advantage, so long as other countries do not follow suit and eliminate their own corporate-income taxes on export production.
Firms and their managers are subject to competitive markets and other constraints, but not to shareholder authority.
Pollution by nutrients and toxins from adjacent land areas further vitiate coral populations' ability to recover, giving seaweed an even greater competitive edge.
Sports today are highly competitive, with huge amounts of money at stake, but that does not mean it is impossible to be honest.
After all, many people here have been teaching the “efficient markets hypothesis” that financial markets around the world have become so competitive that it is impossible to make more than a normal return from investing.
One must also recognize that low labor costs are an essential component of China’s competitive advantage.
The shallower the heat resources and the cheaper the capital, the more competitive an HDR project will be.
The aim is no longer to become “the world’s most competitive knowledge economy,” as disingenuously announced in 2000.
The ERC does not want to annoy, but to make a difference – for European research in a global, competitive context.
Indeed, such deals offer the promise of new export markets, “good” jobs, and rules that lock in US competitive advantages.
Does it make sense to say that Finland is more competitive than, say, Germany or Italy?
We have learned in the past decade that even when businesses are internationally competitive, a macroeconomic crisis can derail economic growth, as it did in most of Asia in the late 1990s.
Moreover, much of Europe stayed with the DM and that helped shoulder the burden of a more competitive dollar.
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