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

The preschool education program Mai chose is a highly competitive one.

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.

University education was highly competitive because of the limited places available at universities.

The international energy technology market is brutal and competitive.

Its major sub sectors increasingly, high value added (per person employed) services are highly competitive and growing.

The EU s most competitive economies are the most innovative and energy efficient, with the most highly educated workforces.

In fact, in a highly competitive world, Hewlett Packard managed to save 150,000 jobs by sacrificing those 30,000.

The establishment by the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency of eight distribution centres for Brazilian products abroad would help to insert Brazilian industrial goods which were highly competitive in terms of price, quantity and reliability into the international market.

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

Innovation and invention were clearly the key to ensuring a rapid pace of industrialization in a highly competitive global arena.

The largest and best equipped farms are highly competitive, in the sense that they can produce for markets at a lower cost.

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

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

Special measures have been adopted to prevent the brain drain , including favourable working conditions and facilities, as well as highly competitive salaries for university researchers.

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

Indeed, growth in many emerging market economies starting with China is highly dependent on retrenching advanced economies.

In the aftermath of the international financial crisis of 1997 1998, many emerging markets found themselves through currency depreciation, rapid productivity gains, or both highly competitive.

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.

Pessimists see conflict of one kind or another as more or less inevitable, and adopt a highly wary and competitive approach to the conduct of international relations.

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.

Abe is now confronting the legacy of this strategy domestic polarization between highly educated and unskilled labor, between competitive and declining sectors, and between urban and rural areas.

By contrast, countries like China and India, which avoided a surge of capital inflows, managed to maintain highly competitive domestic currencies, and thereby kept profitability and investment high.

The bottleneck at the end of the primary cycle is the result of the highly competitive examination systems operating at Class 6 which acts as a screening mechanism.

The Commission held the view that the market for managed care services provided on a national scale is highly concentrated.

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.

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.

The EU s most competitive economies are the most innovative and energy efficient, with the most highly educated workforces. Indeed, for Europe, cheap is not the answer quality and innovation are.

We are an open, transparent economy with a highly skilled workforce and a market of 500 million people on our doorstep.

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.

Given the international preoccupation with China s economic success, the country is now a highly salient market to investors all over the world.