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Uncompetitive in sentence

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CA: So what happened was that, through increased ability to use fracking technology, the calculated reserves of natural gas kind of exploded and the price plummeted, which made wind uncompetitive.
In other words, oil is getting uncompetitive even at low prices before it becomes unavailable even at high prices.
But getting the private sector to expand is also difficult, because any activity which is open to international trade is basically going to be uncompetitive in a post-conflict situation.
Moreover, it may well hurt other poor countries – thereby worsening inequality – by encouraging resources to be allocated to activities that become uncompetitive following the next World Trade Organization agreement.
But, if I had not, HP would have become uncompetitive in fiercely competitive markets, and I would have lost 100,000 jobs.”
It seemed as if the “bottom billion” would have to wait their turn for development, until giant industrializers like China became rich and uncompetitive in labor-intensive manufacturing.
Unfortunately, past spending pushed up wages, without a commensurate increase in productivity, leaving the heavy spenders indebted and uncompetitive.
For the uncompetitive parts of the eurozone, structural reforms can no longer be postponed.
Finally, export growth slowed, not primarily because Indian goods suddenly became uncompetitive, but because growth in the country’s traditional export markets decelerated.
This partly explains why Japan's domestic market remains uncompetitive despite its vibrant democracy.
The process by which southern Europe became uncompetitive in the first place was driven by market price signals – by the incentives those signals created for entrepreneurs, and by how entrepreneurs’ individually rational responses played out in macroeconomic terms.
But, as Hollande’s recent declarations indicate, currency appreciation is the last thing that an uncompetitive country like France needs.
Its economy remains undiversified and uncompetitive, and its contribution to global technological progress is minuscule.
Avoiding it would compel the eurozone's core economies to embrace the fourth and final option: bribing the periphery to remain in a low-growth uncompetitive state.
American companies, he charged, have become softheaded, unfocused, and uncompetitive, in part because business schools are persuading them to embrace a long list of gauzy, feel-good values, such as social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and inclusiveness.
Silicon Valley CEOs say they will not expand in California because of high taxes and burdensome regulation, which make the state uncompetitive.
Europe’s banking sector is already weaker than it looks, since there is an uncompetitive portion of banks that needs to be merged or closed.
For financial institutions, SOEs and LGFVs represent much lower risk than private businesses, regardless of how leveraged or uncompetitive they are.
Nothing can kill growth more effectively than an uncompetitive currency, and there is no faster route to currency appreciation than a surge in capital inflows.
The higher the index is, the less the exchange rate has depreciated to offset inflation – and the more uncompetitive India is.
In the late 1970s, as neoliberalism took hold, policymakers became less concerned about big firms converting profits into political influence, and instead worried that governments were protecting uncompetitive companies.
Over time, those economies became uncompetitive.
Firms that invest little will become uncompetitive.
And those who are nearing retirement know that they are unlikely to lose their jobs in an uncompetitive economy.
To cover the increased costs, they will have to raise premiums, making themselves uncompetitive.
- Because political interference with regulation and competition policy (once old hat in Spain) makes companies uncompetitive, government must refrain from using regulation to control inflation as well as corporate activity.
But more broadly it involves the fact that Japan is just a closed economy, uncompetitive and vigorously defended by bureaucrats and corporate alliances.
Indeed, there is a striking parallel between the problems caused by aid inflows and the “natural resource curse” (or “Dutch disease” as it is termed in Western countries), whereby inflows into one economic sector – typically oil or minerals – drive up economy-wide prices (including the exchange rate), rendering other sectors uncompetitive.
Except for producing inflation in the eurozone, a depreciation, whether external or internal via price cuts, is the only possibility for an uncompetitive country to regain competitiveness and generate a structural current account surplus, which is the only possibility for orderly debt redemption.
But in the Arab world, as everywhere else, this leads to theft, corruption, uncompetitive monopolies, a stifling of enterprise, and, eventually and inevitably, to decline and decay.
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