UNIDIR's increasingly competitive programme brings young researchers from all over the world to work at UNIDIR for short periods.

And governments have failed to protect agricultural workers from exploitation in an increasingly competitive environment.

Turkish construction firms are internationally competitive and increasingly win bids throughout the Middle East and Africa.

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

That something is being competitive in world markets.

It may also be necessary to develop new competitive technologies and innovative applications, especially at the level of increasingly export oriented enterprises.

It has numerous valuable assets, but it cannot postpone long overdue reforms, or else it will become increasingly irrelevant in a fiercely competitive global economy.

Second, the world economy was becoming increasingly a service economy.

CAMBRIDGE The United States government s National Intelligence Council projects that American dominance will be much diminished by 2025, and that the one key area of continued American superiority military power will be less significant in the increasingly competitive world of the future.

In short, the world has become increasingly prone to financial turbulence.

Its cultural and scientific achievements are increasingly influential throughout the world.

Our globalizing world increasingly compels our societies to become more interdependent.

Similarly, competition authorities are increasingly called upon to assess the potential anti competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions, that have either a domestic or an international dimension.

Finished goods are increasingly subject to multi country and multi industry interventions, with individual enterprises in different countries specializing in specific production stages, according to their competitive advantage.

For reform laggards like France, Italy, and Portugal, currency union with an increasingly competitive Germany is forcing an unwelcome choice between revving up their own reforms and permanent stagnation.

The process of globalization had largely affected the business environment for SMEs, and it was becoming increasingly important for firms to become internationally competitive, if they were to survive.

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

In this new world, the challenges are increasingly those of collaboration, not confrontation.

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We also live in a world that is increasingly interdependent and rapidly changing.

The foreign partner supplied capital, technology, entrepreneurial expertise, and in many cases, products and services of world competitive quality.

The result is a world in which power is increasingly distributed rather than concentrated.

Physical distances have been increasingly blurred, and the world has become as one family.

The notion of competitive, private markets as fundamental to well functioning economies had been highlighted at the 2005 World Summit.

MADRID It is a mantra increasingly heard around the world US power is in decline.

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

The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report currently ranks Switzerland's economy as the most competitive in the world, while ranked by the European Union as Europe's most innovative country.

An increasingly multipolar global economy is likely to change the way the world conducts international business.

In an increasingly interconnected world, significant challenges can be addressed only through regional and global partnerships.

The world was becoming an increasingly dangerous place and, while there was a need to improve

But that era is over. Increasingly, the rest of the world has gone from being objects of world history to becoming its subjects.

Ultimately, in today s complex and interlinked world, even the most competitive economies need a helping hand as they climb the global ladder.

Is Finance Too Competitive?

First, they were competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices

(a) Competitive entry process

(a) Competitive entry process

Conducting business through the formation of corporate groups is a feature of the increasingly globalized world economy.

Because of the current trends of development and globalization, our world is becoming increasingly interdependent each year.

Compounding the problem, the diversity in banks capital ratios also indicates a dramatic distortion of the international playing field, as increasingly competitive conditions in financial markets have led to national discretion in applying the rules.

But conservatives have argued that in order to remain competitive in a global world, taxes must be cut and the welfare state reduced.

Today, it is multinational corporations that are increasingly being cast as the über villains of our globalized world.

Such an achievement would offer the world a needed alternative to the increasingly questionable model of economic globalization.

CAMBRIDGE The world economy is entering a new phase, in which achieving global cooperation will become increasingly difficult.