German multinationals like Siemens and Daimler are ratcheting up investment to meet both emerging market and domestic demand.

The German labor market, too, has shown a miraculous turnaround.

The real test for the German government is the labor market.

Merkel and the German social market economy are, in effect, at a crossroads.

Much sets us apart EU enlargement, agriculture, and domestic market issues.

Non EurepGAP compliant suppliers therefore even risk losing domestic market shares.

The domestic market and a growing middle class will assume greater prominence.

The absence of regulation in the market can be perverse, and suggests that domestic monopolistic behaviour in the wholesale segment by domestic companies could be replaced by foreign monopolies controlling the market.

Domestic flights resumed in 1988, after a 30 year absence from the market.

More importantly, a strike could introduce a paradigm shift in the German labor market for two reasons.

By the end of the Second World War, American cigarette manufacturers quickly reentered the German black market.

Energy hungry America has long depended on the global market to meet domestic demand.

Indeed, with roughly 130 million middle class consumers, China s domestic market holds significant potential.

Export led growth meant that China could produce without worrying about developing the domestic market.

Emerging market economies will take some steps, including interest rate cuts, to safeguard domestic growth.

Future disciplines on domestic regulation would help ensure effective market access, including in Mode 4.

The second hand EEE market accounts for a large share of total domestic EEE sales.

The United Kingdom s domestic market is, after all, much smaller than that of the United States.

Japan plans to accelerate labor market reforms, strengthen competition, and advance fiscal consolidation to sustain domestic confidence.

In the large scale retailing segment, domestic companies still dominate the market the three largest retailers are national firms controlling almost 60 per cent of the market.

The problem is that what really ails the German economy is low domestic consumption and investment, which still need to be addressed.

Most small island developing States specialize in a narrow range of products and have a limited domestic market.

However, domestic capital market development requires wide ranging reform and achieving coherence between the policies is not easy.

In contrast to industrial logging, pit sawing (processing logs using chainsaws) is increasing as the domestic market grows.

What about market discipline? Is the German government s willingness to issue more debt and run bigger deficits limited because the market recognizes and penalizes nation states that allow their fiscal positions to weaken?

First, steel prices on the international market have been more attractive than on the domestic Chinese market (the elimination of the export rebate should reduce the attractiveness of exports).

This is not a problem of immigration as such, but of poorly designed domestic social and labor market institutions.

That means that countries with a large domestic market and a prosperous middle class will have an important advantage.

Domestic political turmoil combined with the turbulence in the US financial market is the perfect recipe for a disaster.

In Malaysia there is a substantial domestic market in recent years for tiger meat and manufactured tiger bone medicines.

Market access and both public and private external funding are also needed to complement efforts at the domestic level.

In addition to maintaining sound public finances, German leaders implemented difficult structural reforms aimed at improving international competitiveness, including painful labor market reforms.

To help these domestic powerhouses increase their market leverage, the government often favors them at the expense of foreign competitors.

Domestic financial reforms will focus on strengthening policy coordination and moving toward market determined interest rates and exchange rate flexibility.

The Shanghai free trade zone s final objective is to help China exploit fully the demand potential of its domestic market.

Low wage competition has led to substantial outsourcing and off shoring activities that have kept German firms competitive by reducing their demand for domestic labor.

European governments debt may all be denominated in euro, but German and Italian debt are hardly the same thing, so the government euro bond market lacks the depth and liquidity of the US Treasury Bill market.

But if market nervousness persists and interest rates remain high relative to rates for secure German debt, the debt burden will rapidly become unsustainable.

In Europe, the market for Greek debt has frozen, and interest rate spreads between Irish and German euro denominated debt recently reached alarming levels.

Product development based on available agro resources is the key to becoming a potential player in the global market and to facing the increasing competition of imported goods on the domestic market.

Domestic demand led growth will be a more reliable strategy than export led growth. That means that countries with a large domestic market and a prosperous middle class will have an important advantage.

Another is to reduce vulnerability to sudden changes in financial market sentiment, which can wreak havoc with domestic growth and employment.

The surge in the stock market benefits domestic investors, making them likelier to spend more (what economists call the wealth effect ).

This would mean that China s much publicized effort to boost domestic consumption might in fact call for appropriate credit market reforms.

First, the country's limited domestic market is a very significant push factor in propelling Singapore enterprises to expand their markets abroad.