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First, all tertiary-education institutions should ensure that their missions remain relevant in fast-changing economic and social environments, while continuously evaluating their competitive and collaborative advantages.
These improvements will put increasing pressure on France and Italy to follow suit, which could make Europe as a whole more competitive.
Now European countries can turn to the challenge of becoming more flexible and productive so that they can be more competitive in the future.
Current US law attempts to blunt these competitive disadvantages through deferral, allowing US multinationals to delay tax payments on their foreign subsidiaries' earnings until they are repatriated to the US.
This means that domestic wages and prices in Brazil, when translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange, are too high for Brazil to be competitive in international markets.
But competitive pressures and the long gestation period of fixed-capital outlays multiply optimism, leading to more investment being undertaken than is actually profitable.
Wind energy is now competitive with conventional power plants, while rising gas and coal prices and the steady decline in renewable-energy costs imply that, within a few years, fossil fuels will be even less attractive.
According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Foshan is China’s most competitive prefecture-level city, and its eighth most competitive city overall, owing partly to institutional innovations by local governments at the township, district, and prefecture levels.
As Asians drive growth toward more sustainable patterns, they will increase the incentives for others to do so by generating new technology, lowering the environmental cost of growth, and undercutting the argument that leadership incurs competitive and other economic costs, but few benefits.
What Europeans must remember is that they still live in democracies that not only respect their citizens’ fundamental rights, including the right to express themselves, but that also have economies that are at least as competitive as those of most of Europe’s rivals.
Unlike the US dollar, there is no obvious way to put pressure on the European Central Bank to depreciate the currency in order to obtain a competitive advantage over other economies.
But one should remember that, until recently, Ireland and to some extent Spain were held up as shining examples of competitive economies that created a record number of jobs.
If China devalues it will incite a new round of competitive devaluations across Asia.
Lafontaine's agenda is a move backwards, as if the Continent's tentative moves on the road to a competitive market economy, beyond the welfare state, have reached a cul de sac for Europe.
Now that the US is producing massive amounts of low-price natural gas and ethane, Saudi Arabia's competitive advantage – and market share – is beginning to deteriorate.
Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen.
This is good news for economic growth, as this group creates millions of jobs and helps countries remain competitive in the global economy.
Brazil’s economy is large and relatively closed, so a competitive real exchange rate is less crucial for growth than it would be in a small, open economy.
Greater certainty that the real exchange rate will be competitive can help unlock investment in agribusiness (Argentina has some of the world’s most competitive natural conditions), energy, and import-competing manufactures.
So fiscal consolidation in Brazil would strengthen the currency, while in Argentina it would create room for a more competitive real exchange rate.
Competitive currency devaluation further increases the risk of a speculative attack.
Specifically, that means pursuing an economic policy that balances competitive markets and social solidarity, with substantial space for local diversity.
The dynamics of adjustment within the eurozone exacerbate the underlying imbalances – Germany is becoming more competitive while the periphery remains uncompetitive.
Unemployment is rising, their economies are not becoming more competitive, and the interest rates on their debt continue to rise.
Is it competitive enough to prevent discredited leaders from clinging to power?
These countries may not yet be full democracies, but, because they hold competitive elections, they have met a necessary condition for being a democracy.
But since Lebanon was torn apart thirty years ago by civil war and violence, exacerbated by PLO, Israeli, Syrian, French, and US military incursions, not a single Muslim has lived in an electorally competitive Arab state.
So Lebanon cannot be considered electorally competitive.
In China, competitive elections simply help the Party to single out loyal officials for important positions, and exclusive elections are part of the Party’s complicated selection system based on political reliability.
In this newly competitive environment, oil will trade like any normal commodity, with the Saudi monopoly broken and North American production costs setting a long-term price ceiling of around $50 a barrel, for reasons I set out in January.
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