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

The question is how to increase the absorptive capacity of the region and build a modern industrial base.

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.

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

And so, in effect, you could see perhaps a tenfold increase in the ability to get around as far as speed is concerned.

A joint polio and measles appeal brought capacity and results.

Therefore, a central bank must continually increase the amount of its reserves to maintain the same power to manipulate exchange rates.

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.

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.

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

Its capacity to contribute to post conflict reconstruction and to adopt transparent and accountable approaches should be maximized.

While there has been a slight increase in the absorptive capacity of the operating and development budgets, the Government still lacks the capacity to meet donor requirements for the project documents and feasibility studies that are necessary for the release of donor funds.

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.

Increased costs for investment in real assets would help to rein in property prices and reduce over capacity in infrastructure and manufacturing.

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

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

But there is widespread consensus that Africa will need a massive increase in educational capacity over the next few decades.

It enables the ability to track trends over time such as the impact of increasing user loads and growing data sets on use case level performance.

These programs have the ability to increase employment opportunities and address the social problems that often accompany high unemployment.

Indeed, extrapolations of global supply that foresee an increase in uranium mining are based on claims about the ability to expand output in Kazakhstan.

As surviving firms gain in size, Chinese businesses may exercise more bargaining power vis à vis the Chinese government and foreign firms.

We should not come away from these episodes thinking that expanding access to finance is bad.

As global oil demand increases, there is not enough capacity to meet it a cycle that will continue until demand collapses.

While the multinational force assists with the provision of security, it also works to increase Iraqi capacity to assume that task.

More recently, new technologies developed in the US greatly increase the ability to extract oil and natural gas from underground formations.

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.

But increasing energy access is not only about supplying better, more efficient cooking stoves or light bulbs.

Meanwhile, unsustainable budget deficits and public debt in most advanced economies have severely limited the scope for further fiscal stimulus.

(b) increase human and institutional capacity in developing countries for ICT, including through, the development of technology infrastructure and the expansion of science and engineering faculties

And, for developing countries that lack supply side capacity, greater access to the global market is a moot point, as they remain far from even considering what size their share of it should be.

Debt sustainability for the poorest countries is best secured if financial resources come in the form of grants and if donors consequently agree to substantially increase grant based ODA.

Although much depends on greater regional investment in increasing export capacity, further Chinese investment in the region would most likely follow.

For developed countries, increasing resilience and flexibility over time by building public assets should be a long term priority.

At the country level, where the operational activities took place, there was a need to build and enhance national capacities to engage meaningfully with the United Nations system.

(i) Paragraph (a) should read Increase in the number of developing countries having the technical capacity to deal with disaster prevention and mitigation.

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.

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

The purpose of this reform, which followed a similar Security Council resolution for the ICTY in 2000, was to increase the judicial capacity of the ICTR.

The purpose of this reform, which followed a similar Security Council resolution for the ICTY in 2000, was to increase the judicial capacity of the ICTR.

However, as the analysis was incomplete, the Protection Capacity Section is currently following up with the previous participants to inter alia gain a better understanding in this matter.

On the other hand, higher competitiveness and erosion of the real value of debt would quickly outweigh these costs by restoring confidence in the French economy s prospects.

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

On policy space, a specific output had been included under subprogramme 2 relating to space for development policies, especially to enhance productive capacity and competitiveness .