The international energy technology market is brutal and competitive.

Consider a struggling firm that is trying to improve its competitive position.

The Norwegian Competition Authority successfully used this procedure to ensure that the market remained competitive.

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

Small and vulnerable economies must not be abandoned to their fate in the current highly competitive market.

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Client relations and marketing UNOPS services assume critical importance for a multiple service line provider in a competitive market.

(a) Enhance and support competitive productive capacities able to produce according to market requirements in terms of quality and quantity

Market dominant banks still extract hefty fees on debit and credit card transactions from merchants, who are forced to pay a multiple of what a truly competitive market would bear.

According to the Labour Market Service Act, employers are paid labour market service subsidy through the employment office if the employer employs an unemployed person with a lower competitive ability.

Finally, South Africa, with its world class banking sector and internationally competitive construction companies, can supply services to the Chinese market.

This means that, in a competitive labor market, real wages will always be instantly adjusted to changes in conditions of demand.

Market oriented reform, by leveling the competitive playing field, would hurt their interests and reduce their privileges, making fierce opposition likely.

What implications does this have for market structure? Concentration in well defined deposit and loan markets is linked with competitive pressure.

The merged company would have had a very strong position in the drilling equipment market.

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

In today s hyper competitive global economy, there is no reliable third way for countries to avoid continued liberalization and market oriented reforms.

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

Some technologies are already mature and economically competitive, while others need only minor additional development steps to become ready for the market.

Despite the parlous fiscal position, for now the market for Japanese government bonds (JGBs) remains stable.

The Single Market Acts I II provide a comprehensive agenda to tap fully the potential of an integrated and competitive market of 500 million consumers to catalyze growth and prosperity in the European Union.

In a perfectly competitive market, with full information, models of the market show that all the factors of production receive rewards equal to their marginal products, i.e., all are paid what they are worth.

One narrative features a robust German economy with low unemployment, strong finances, and the right competitive position to exploit the most dynamic segments of global demand.

A strong relation should be noted between women's role, education, occupation and position in the labour market.

This fact, in itself, cannot be taken as definitive evidence of the presence of anti competitive practices in the market for international Internet connectivity.

However, some less competitive exporters are facing adjustment issues consequent to quota elimination and require assistance to improve their market access and supply capacity.

Steinhoff is dominant in the neighbouring South African market and might abuse that position dominance in the Zimbabwean market by undercutting prices or becoming a price leader.

Even in the case of other developing markets, it is important that vigilance be exercised so that market structures do no evolve in a direction in which powerful market players can engage in anti competitive behaviour.

Network Solutions retained control of the .com registry, whereas we created a competitive market for the reseller business whereby registrars sold names directly to users.

However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

Yet, negotiations under agriculture and non agricultural market access have proved controversial owing to differing interests between preference dependent countries and other competitive exporting countries.

An assessment mission undertaken in Jordan in November 2004 showed that the EMPRETEC Programme can provide a competitive edge to SMEs in the global market.

This position is particularly popular in competitive agricultural exporting nations in both the developed and developing world, some of whom have banded together in the Cairns Group lobby.

Those institutions that survived will hold a stronger market position than ever, and they will resist a systematic overhaul.

China s exchange rate intervention probably hurts a number of other emerging market exporters that do not intervene as much and are less competitive as a result.

Within the next three years, online bookmark services became competitive, with venture backed companies such as Backflip, Blink, Clip2, ClickMarks, HotLinks, and others entering the market.

An analysis of the horizontal implications revealed that the transaction raised no serious competition concerns as the market for the provision of these services was highly competitive and the merged entity would not enjoy a large market share.

This allowed Germany to improve its competitive position in world markets vis à vis the other large euro zone economies, where there were no productivity revolutions, silent or otherwise.

The result will be even more support than was seen in last April s presidential election for extremist political parties that reject both Europe and competitive market capitalism.

Rent seeking, the ability of entrenched elites to allocate resources to themselves and smother opportunity for others, invariably leads to a less competitive market and lower growth.

Much attention is already being given to the first step, that is, to provide the assurance of supply of nuclear fuel and technology at competitive market prices.

Market seeking OFDI is driven by the competitive impulse to access new markets, distribution networks and marketing channels in order to secure greater influence over supply chains.

As a result, the best candidates are not offered competitive remuneration commensurate to their market value and thus are often not available for electoral missions and projects.

Indeed, there is little evidence of serious anti competitive practices that would warrant ex ante market regulation, at least not in the main markets for interconnection services.

Ensuring that fuel would be accessible to the developing countries with competitive and fair conditions devoid of imposed regulations and prices determined through monopolies in the market.