Energy efficient industry can compete better, pollute less and help to achieve national energy security.

They also are at odds with improving French competitiveness.

Kuroda s stance has already weakened the yen s exchange rate, making Japanese goods more competitive.

Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate weaker countries bonds to earn a few extra basis points, which caused interest rates to converge across the eurozone.

The main change was a large reduction in interest rates, in line with an inflation targeting framework, which has led to a more competitive exchange rate policy.

The dynamics of adjustment within the eurozone exacerbate the underlying imbalances Germany is becoming more competitive while the periphery remains uncompetitive.

Over time, they will foster productivity and flexibility, and the countries that implement them thoroughly should thus become more competitive.

Unemployment is rising, their economies are not becoming more competitive, and the interest rates on their debt continue to rise.

The new structures were to be more capable in a situation with no front line, and more capable of independent action at all levels.

At the same time, the lower dollar makes American products more competitive in global markets, leading to increased exports and reduced imports.

Competitive advantage is a firm s ability to do something better, faster, cheaper, or uniquely, when compared with rival firms in the market.

Higher import costs and lower export earnings combined to reduce the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

It is now more, not less, able to deal with terrorism.

A new Franco German axis that makes France more competitive is just what Europe needs.

If the renminbi were to gain in value, poor countries exports would become more competitive, and their economies would become better positioned to reap the benefits of globalization.

India and Japan are increasingly capable of competing in space research and activity.

As a result, although Latin Americans can vote in a more democratic environment, they can t compete in a globalized world. Standards of living fall, incomes stagnate, hopes are dampened.

Improvement on all counts is vital for America s competitive revival.

In order to make productive capacities more competitive, more export oriented and better able to enter into global markets, international production networks and value chains, UNIDO proposes a three pronged trade capacity building objectives focusing on the following activities

Even if the US further postpones retrenchment, the US Congress is unlikely to tolerate an appreciation of the US dollar that makes European exporters more competitive and shifts the burden of sustaining the recovery onto US consumers.

(e) Capacity building services to support the increased competitiveness of the industrial sector.

To the extent that the firm becomes more competitive, and to the extent that it retains important parts of its activities at home, the home economy is also likely to benefit from becoming better connected to international markets.

Accordingly, the Board is not in a position to assess the basis and reasonableness of assumptions or the impact on UNOPS competitiveness and profitability.

(c) An information note on recent important competition cases, with special reference to competition cases involving more than one country, and taking into account information to be received from member States

Younger leaders are more likely to be able to cope with the chop and change of difficult times.

Such conduct was likely to make the Zambian plant less competitive by restricting its production capacity.

Working longer for the same pay is a useful way of making Europe more competitive, and, when compared to reducing wages, it imposes a much lighter burden on workers and employees.

Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive. Other countries enjoyed housing and consumption booms on the back of cheap credit, making them less competitive.

Today, Brazil is the world s most competitive producer of renewable fuels, based primarily on bioethanol.

Remaining in a currency union with the much more competitive German economy will require wrenching and rapid reforms, for which Hollande s tepid approach will fail to prepare the complacent French.

By restructuring their secondary schools and universities to train graduates with skills demanded by multinational corporations, Asian countries also create more competitive workforces.

Consumers have better access to credit.

Lack of basic infrastructure and industrial capacity remains one of Africa s biggest problems, for it sustains poverty and undermines the continent s ability to compete with the rest of the world.

And that will require a less competitive euro higher relative to the dollar and other currencies.

To encourage self help, international efforts must ensure that free competition goes together with fair competition.

With low interest rates, price stability, a more competitive exchange rate, a lower tax burden, plentiful resources for investment, and the reduction of electricity tariffs, Brazil is strengthening its potential for more rapid expansion.

The concentration of women in certain professions has other consequences too. Primarily, it leads to increased competition within such professions and the weakening of the general competitiveness of women in the overall labour market.

Their exports would become less competitive, and they would encounter heavy competition from the rump eurozone in their home markets.

Public sector unions also can affect a nation s competitiveness in global markets, albeit indirectly.

Experts also discussed the impact of OFDI on firms' competitiveness and how it could be measured.

The Commission also advocated that the Government revisit the tariff structure of cement in order to make the landed price of imported cement from Zimbabwe more competitive than it was at the time.

With its pursuit of research into the farthest reaches of the universe deep space South Africa hopes to provide further proof that Africans can compete at all levels.

In the biotechnology sector, which was experiencing steady growth, a national forum for biotechnology competitiveness had been set up in September 2004.

But the degree to which the authorities will be able to push for more competition in banking will depend crucially on the regulatory framework.

The dollar is declining because only a more competitive dollar can shrink the US trade deficit to a sustainable level.