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

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

As the main component of the Central African GDP (32.2 per cent in 2002), the food crop sector, which is highly diversified, is the country's main centre of economic growth and potentially its most competitive sector, provided effective production, transformation and export measures are implemented.

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

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

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.

And strengthening the US export sector requires overcoming some significant structural and competitive barriers.

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

True, some of China s fiscal stimulus effectively consists of loans to the private sector via the highly controlled banking sector.

The authorities must reduce burdensome regulations to allow the sector to be more competitive and dynamic (recent government service sector reform is most welcome).

It was also helping the private sector to promote industrial development and make developing countries more competitive.

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

There is a proliferation of actors in the sector, and the industry is competitive on a regional basis.

High value added, higher paying jobs, especially in the tradable sector, generally require highly educated people.

This sector, however, is highly vulnerable to weather conditions and to external events affecting commodity prices.

Economic reform clearly has made the Indian corporate sector more vibrant and competitive, but most of the Indian economy is not in the corporate sector (public or private).

The manufacturing sector, squeezed by stagnating productivity and competition from China and other low cost producers, is no longer competitive.

Sri Lanka, which had relied on export crops in the past, was now seeking to develop a competitive manufacturing sector.

Good governance, a vibrant civil society, functioning markets, and a competitive entrepreneurial private sector are essential ingredients of this process.

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.

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.

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

But a government official must pursue the public interest, which includes preserving a competitive environment in the oil or banking sector.

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.

Tasked with regulating the communications and information technology sector with the aim of achieving a highly competitive environment for the provision of superior services to end users and an attractive ecosystem for investors , the CITC is responsible for censoring thousands of websites, and sending content removal requests to social media platforms.

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.

For example, capital charges should account for the degree of friction and rivalry in the banking sector, with tighter requirements in more competitive contexts.

Larger dividends paid to the budget from the highly profitable state enterprise sector could also provide an alternative source of funds.

Assisting the artisanal and small scale gold mining sector to minimize the discharge of highly poisonous mercury used in gold extraction

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.

Promote the United Nations Convention against Corruption and fight corruption at all levels through policies that emphasize accountability, transparent public sector management and competitive markets

By 2002, the financial sector accounted for a 62 per cent share, a reflection of Singapore's competitive role as an international financial centre in the global economy.

Health care in Finland consists of a highly decentralized, three level publicly funded health care system and a much smaller private health care sector.

Losing this sector of the economy to the hyper competitive Chinese will be a hard hit, as textile exports are often the first step on the development ladder.

Despite Singapore's competitive strength in manufacturing, the sector accounted for only 20 per cent of OFDI in 1990, and declined to 8.5 per cent in 2002 (table 2).

National competitive examinations

The move to the private sector allows the new Guam Telephone Authority to offer diversified services at competitive rates, including cellular, long distance, Internet and cable television services.38

The government should also pay attention to the development by private enterprises of new and competitive products, and support the scaling up of successful private sector innovations in new industries.

First, the crisis and Great Recession of 2008 2009 were a wake up call. While Chinese export industries remain highly competitive, there are understandable doubts about the post crisis state of foreign demand for Chinese products.

Is Finance Too Competitive?

First, they were competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices