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Twenty-first-century globalization, driven by digitization and rapid changes in competitive advantage, can disrupt local industries, companies, and communities and cause job loss, even as it spurs greater productivity, boosts overall employment, and generates economy-wide gains.
Even if Microsoft on occasion may have engaged in some sharp competitive practices, the EU’s competition authorities have not been content with slapping its wrists, but got involved in deeply intrusive remedies, including the unbundling of a media player from Microsoft’s operating system and mandating disclosure of industrial secrets embodied in Microsoft’s server software.
Reforms are needed if Europe really wants to become a competitive, knowledge-based economy, and not merely the most regulated one.
The same story is true in poor countries around the world: telephone penetration remained stubbornly stagnant in developing nations until they allowed competitive entry-primarily in the form of mobile telephony-in the 1990's.
As a result, the North American auto industry improved its competitive position internationally.
The way to limit the competitive burden on US producers is, of course, by ensuring that other countries also require their companies to take steps to mitigate climate change, thereby keeping the playing field level.
Monetary integration would weaken the existing distortions, reduce the scope for political intervention, and force European firms to become more competitive.
The World Economic Forum still rates the American economy as the world’s most competitive, owing to its labor-market flexibility, higher education, political stability, and openness to innovation.
A new forecast for 2025 being prepared by the US National Intelligence Council projects that American dominance will be “much diminished,” and that the one key area of continued American superiority – military power – will be less significant in the competitive world of the future.
At the same time, China’s leaders must commit to curbing the soaring costs of land and financing, thereby paving the way for creating a more equal and competitive market for all firms.
The competitive forces that underlie stock exchanges were seen to force all securities prices to their true fundamental values.
So, while bribery in China may facilitate growth to some extent, it does not produce the kind of competitive business environment that supports long-term gains.
To some extent, such a revolution is already underway, with renewable energy supplying national grids in countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Rwanda at competitive prices.
An equally simplistic view of democracy is that it is a political system in which periodic competitive elections give the winner the right to govern without constraint.
Similarly, while competitive elections are essential to any democratic system, a “winner-take-all” attitude to electoral outcomes, with the victor concentrating power, is incompatible with democracy in the long term.
Those woes are real, but Japan’s ongoing national-security reforms and participation in the new 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership have placed it firmly on the path to reinventing itself as a more secure, competitive, and internationally engaged country.
At the beginning of June, the RCB’s governor, Sergei Ignatyev, admitted not only that this year’s inflation target would be missed, but also that the RCB is not prepared to pursue inflation targets at the expense of a competitive exchange rate.
The real point is that the economic landscape in which we are operating is not only competitive; it is changing constantly.
But even with independently drawn districts, elections in many parts of the country will not be competitive, because voters from the same party often live in close proximity.
Not only will politicians’ influence be towards monetary excess, which of course is a serious enough matter for a bank whose primary mandate is price stability, but also the excess will constitute a serious barrier to structural reform, which is essential for European prosperity in a competitive global economy.
German precision instruments and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.
Low-wage competition has led to substantial outsourcing and off-shoring activities that have kept German firms competitive by reducing their demand for domestic labor.
Only if wages adjust downward to accommodate the new international environment can German workers become competitive again, so that the country returns to a higher employment level, exploiting its human capital up to the capacity constraint.
And governments have failed to protect agricultural workers from exploitation in an increasingly competitive environment.
The largest and best-equipped farms are highly competitive, in the sense that they can produce for markets at a lower cost.
Argentina is vulnerable to external shocks such as declining agricultural commodity prices because Argentina failed to develop a diversified export sector, one in which a broad range of industrial and service sectors are internationally competitive.
In today’s global economy, however, international competitive advantage is mostly based upon knowledge and the capacity to harness knowledge in new technologies.
Nigeria has proposed creating stabilization funds, and, in the future, it will sell its natural resources in transparent, competitive bidding processes.
Kuroda’s stance has already weakened the yen’s exchange rate, making Japanese goods more competitive.
Environmental factors and infrastructure are critical for creating such dynamic, competitive conditions.
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