Indeed, greater competitive pressure may increase the fragility of banks balance sheets and make investors more prone to panics.

These activities are in particular those that are capable of withstanding competitive pressures for efficiency gains and surviving the new industrial and trade realities.

The challenge is that the rise of online shopping will increase competitive pressure, regardless of whether big foreign retailers enter the market.

Iraq s elections have turned up the pressure even more.

There is a trade off between competition and stability. Indeed, greater competitive pressure may increase the fragility of banks balance sheets and make investors more prone to panics.

Structural reforms are always useful, but increasing productivity takes a long time and does not always translate into higher competitiveness.

Harnessed effectively, advanced agricultural biotechnology can contribute to solving some of the most common problems faced by developing countries through

As developing country firms become more competitive through OFDI, they can contribute to the competitiveness of their home countries by increasing national productive capacity and productivity.

With the PBOC unable to sterilize the inflows, upward pressure on the renminbi s exchange rate would threaten competitiveness.

The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness. But where will increased competitiveness come from?

This only increases financial pressure on France, Italy, and the other members.

Although a weaker euro would not increase their competitiveness relative to Germany and other eurozone countries, it would improve their competitiveness relative to all non eurozone countries.

Muted wage growth increases competitiveness, and underutilized labor and capital are redeployed.

f) Assist women entrepreneurs to increase their competitiveness through the use of ICT

The benefits of internationalization for increasing enterprise competitiveness are demonstrated by the evidence in UNCTAD's country case studies.

During the Meeting, experts discussed different patterns of SMEs' internationalization that help increase export competitiveness.

If the increase were considered permanent, however, it would make sense to increase spending or reduce tax pressure.

The US pivot to Asia further increases the pressure on Europe to deal with its own neighborhood. Although the EU s foreign policy toward Russia has become more effective, tensions have, if anything, grown and may continue to do so.

Furthermore, the Turkish military can increase the pressure on Iraqi Kurds with far less drastic measures.

What about inflation targeting? Here, too, the record since 1980 has been patchy, despite the huge deflationary pressure exerted by low wage competition from Asia.

The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness.

Second, Germany s experience with this kind of agency shows that it is impossible to sell off large parts of an economy simultaneously.

Most countries invest public resources in assets that have the effect of increasing their human capital and technological base, and thus their competitiveness.

That means raising productivity and strengthening competitiveness and, equally important, asserting Europe s place in the world.

It is interesting to examine the extent to which such firms have used the interconnected nature of the globalizing economy to increase their internationalization and competitiveness.

More generally, the rapid expansion of credit risks increasing inflationary pressure and fueling the formation of asset bubbles.

This in turn should help SMEs in those countries to become more competitive in the global market.

UNIDO integrated programmes in the region will progressively contribute towards building the productivity and capacity of these sectors to accelerate their competitiveness.

OFDI had contributed to increasing familiarity and experience with international business, which enhance firm specific assets, including improving the reputation and brand image of Singaporean enterprises. Such internationalisation has also helped strengthen managerial and marketing expertise and market access.

She also underlined the need to increase the productivity and competitiveness of these countries and, to that end, to intensify efforts towards aid and market access.

While these trends benefit Chinese workers, they also support America and other countries by holding down inflation and making it possible for their companies to cope with tough competitive pressures.

But competitive pressures and the long gestation period of fixed capital outlays multiply optimism, leading to more investment being undertaken than is actually profitable.

The Council supports the efforts to form integrated brigades of the Congolese army in order to increase the military pressure on FDLR.

The Council supports the efforts to form integrated brigades of the Congolese army in order to increase the military pressure on FDLR.

This has posed constraints to their full participation in the negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services.13 Active implementation of articles IV (increasing participation of developing countries) and XIX 2 (progressive liberalization) of the Agreement would increase the competitiveness of service supply of developing countries and beneficial engagement in trade in services.

A reduction in unit labor costs can also increase competitiveness only to the extent that it actually results in price reductions.

This would require improving America s diplomatic capabilities, as well as regaining international competitiveness through greater investment in education and infrastructure at home.

However, in addition to the increased competitiveness of their firms, importing countries could enjoy additional benefits, for example moving up the value chain to higher value activities or increasing their exports.

So is higher productivity the way out? Even assuming that governments could identify and implement structural reforms that yielded quick productivity gains, it is not clear that higher productivity leads to increased competitiveness.

Learning by doing, in turn, increases competitiveness and spurs economic growth, thereby improving investors expectations and inducing further investment.

Third, despite some significant improvements, major deficiencies in the coverage and quality of infrastructure are clearly affecting competitiveness and increasing costs.

As detailed in our previous report, the Sports Association for Schools desires to set a goal of increasing the number of female pupils involved in competitive sports.

National competitive examinations

First, given that countries make international commitments only when their citizens are ready to do so, increasing domestic pressure for emissions reduction is crucial.

Such measures, combined with efforts to raise agricultural productivity in developing countries, will contribute to relieving pressure on natural resources.