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When a company becomes more competitive, it crowds out its rivals; they get nothing in return.
Finally, South Africa, with its world-class banking sector and internationally competitive construction companies, can supply services to the Chinese market.
But following all of these rules should ensure that a party maintains credibility and respect, and that, in defeat, it at least remains competitive for the next election.
As more companies do so, laggards will be at a growing competitive disadvantage.
The Parmalat scandal may have been a blow to global capitalism, but in Italy it is hoped that it might sound the death knell for an economic system traditionally based much more on "connections" amongst private groups - and between these groups and the public sector - than on competitive markets.
American businesses had no choice but to develop or adopt new techniques, processes, and technologies to stay competitive.
Even if gas hydrate will never be economically competitive with conventional gas, it may have value as a strategic energy reserve.
Squalor persists while competitive markets press the region to cut costs on the backs of the poor.
In both cases, regaining monetary sovereignty allowed a more competitive currency, which in turn increased export demand and assisted economic recovery.
According to the International Monetary Fund, competitive devaluation occurs when countries are “manipulating exchange rates…to gain an unfair competitive advantage over other members…” But a key point is often missed when the term “currency wars” has been applied to monetary expansion by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and other central banks in recent years.
Barry Eichengreen and Jeffrey Sachs have persuasively argued this for the 1930’s (the opposite of the conventional wisdom regarding beggar-thy-neighbor competitive devaluations).
It is a hub of high-level thought and innovation; it is home to some of the world’s most competitive regions and industries; and, perhaps most impressive, it has built a community and market encompassing a half-billion people.
Even if EMU membership did not promise a more stable and competitive business environment, increased efficiency, and faster growth throughout the enlarged euro area, minimizing exposure to financial contagion is reason enough to join as soon as possible.
The other 30% is also emblematic of a deeper strategic issue that America faces – a profound competitive challenge.
It must be earned by hard work, sheer determination, and a long overdue competitive revival.
Improvement on all counts is vital for America’s competitive revival.
The investment required for competitive revival and sustained recovery cannot be funded without a long-overdue improvement in US saving.
Of course, the transfer of millions of manufacturing jobs to countries like China and Mexico partly offset this trend, even if it could reasonably be argued that more jobs were created than lost; that the US became more competitive thanks to this shift; that China has transformed itself into a major consumer market; and that even Mexico has made some progress.
It made many of Mexico’s industrial and agricultural businesses more competitive, but brought only a small and temporary increase in foreign investment as a percentage of GDP.
Corporate leaders who embrace this new reality, view it as an opportunity, and resist the inclination to “manage” or avoid issues will have a competitive advantage.
The lack of structural reform of Europe’s labor markets, competitive practices, and so on means that European potential economic growth – its growth ceiling – is lower than it should be.
Wartime introduction of income taxes and large public debt was followed by revolution, protectionism, hyperinflation, and competitive devaluations.
One Europe with a competitive and resource-efficient economy.
A competitive, innovative and resource-efficient economy.
By lowering the corporate-tax rate to a globally competitive level and granting better terms for repatriating profits, the tax package is expected to shift corporate earnings back to the United States.
The fear was that, if China sought a weaker exchange rate to escape deflation, the result would be another round of global competitive devaluations and even more deflation.
Companies formed international links in order to remain competitive.
The country would use its resources unproductively, and its firms would become less globally competitive.
Devaluing the renminbi by about 2% against the US dollar – the biggest one-day move since the renminbi officially eliminated its dollar peg – should give market forces more influence over the tightly controlled currency, while giving Chinese businesses a competitive edge in foreign markets.
A process of competitive economic liberalization will sweep across Asia, further guaranteeing the region’s continued resurgence.
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