Governments should identify tourism niches that are most likely to increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of their destination.

The American model lost its attractiveness in the 2000 s.

Finally, there is the attractiveness of South Korean culture.

The Asian Group called for further work in this area, as well as more generally on how to increase the attractiveness of those countries in the region that had so far been marginalized in the overall distribution of FDI flows.

The Asian Group called for further work in this area, as well as more generally work on how to increase the attractiveness of those countries in the region that had so far been marginalized in the overall distribution of FDI flows.

There is indeed a compelling harmony and symmetry and a logical attractiveness in the report.

American Democrats say that President Bush's policies have squandered America's attractiveness.

As American assets have lost their attractiveness, their prices have dropped.

But it is a mistake to dismiss America's declining attractiveness so lightly.

In terms of soft power, despite the attractiveness of traditional Russian culture, Russia has little global presence.

In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attractiveness to others.

American culture is now prominent, and it contributes to America's attractiveness its soft power in many, but not all, areas.

They worry that even after undertaking structural reforms to reduce the attractiveness of unemployment benefits and increase the ability of workers to move to jobs and of firms to move to workers, central bankers will continue to insist on tight money.

In this context, looking north is essential if we want to regain our universal attractiveness and defend our democratic comparative advantages.

First, integration of the Maghreb would create economies of scale and boost competition, establishing a market of more than 75 million consumers similar in size to several of the world s most dynamic trading powers and certainly large enough to increase the region s attractiveness to foreign investors.

Tourism is important, of course, and from that standpoint Europe s diversity is a unique source of attractiveness.

According to many close observers, America s attractiveness is declining in the region where the allure, or soft power, of others has increased.

But the economic and political attractiveness of a cap consists in its ability to raise substantial revenue without eliminating specific tax expenditures.

The results also reflected China s declining attractiveness as a base for product assembly, low cost manufacturing, and parts production.

All these factors had contributed negatively by further reducing the attractiveness and the quality of the utilization of Africa's FDI.

The impressive job by the American military in providing humanitarian relief after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the South Asian earthquake in 2005 helped restore America s attractiveness.

But the Soviets attractiveness as liberators was destroyed by the way they later used their hard power against Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

Corporations have learned how to sell us unhealthy products by appealing to our unconscious desires for status, attractiveness, and social acceptance.

And yet, while bureaucratization of science has fueled concerns about its attractiveness to talented thinkers, we should not be overly pessimistic.

On this bottom board, the degree of close civilian cooperation is also important, which is affected by a country s attractiveness or soft power.

The close bond between Israel and Bush s America can in retrospect be seen as a mixed blessing a special relationship that contributed to the declining attractiveness of both countries.

The thought of France and Germany fighting each other again seems impossible, and the development of the European Union has greatly enhanced Europe s attractiveness and soft power in the world.

Development projects were funded through grants or cheap loans, and these have probably played at least some part in increasing the attractiveness of the Maghreb and the Mashraq to foreign investors.

Indeed, occupying a divided nation is messy, and it is bound to produce episodes like Abu Ghraib and Haditha, which undercut America s attractiveness not just in Iraq, but around the world.

This increase reflects the large increase in funding for HIV AIDS.

The increase is also directly associated with the increase in posts proposed.

The maverick Koizumi had the personal attractiveness and ideological appeal needed to galvanize a majority behind his plans for a fair distribution of the pain of reform.

The increase in the number of posts is due to the increase in peacekeeping activities.

The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war.

An increase in bank loans allows households and businesses to increase their spending.

The increase in 2003 was due primarily to the significant increase in the supplementary programme budget.

Yet Western policy towards Belarus must be carefully modulated, and it should emphasize Europe s soft power the attractiveness of its social model to an increasing number of Belarusians.

Europe has used the attractiveness of its Union to obtain outcomes it wants, just as the US has acted as though its military pre eminence could solve all problems.

A country s soft power rests upon the attractiveness of its culture, the appeal of its domestic political and social values, and the style and substance of its foreign policies.

And, because of the country s comparative lack of soft power social, cultural, and economic attractiveness it stands ready touse the competitive advantages (i.e., its resource wealth) available to it.

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).

An increase in religiosity followed.

Increase in price of petrol.

It helps to increase more people's probability to remain in the labor market and increase productivity.

A 1 increase in the number of immigrant college graduates leads to a 6 increase in patents per capita.