For example, China s labor intensive export sectors are losing their competitive edge.

German precision instruments and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.

Brazil, meanwhile, aims to gain a competitive edge by making it easier for foreigners to immigrate with their families.

In the late 1980 s, Japan seemed capable of challenging America s industrial leadership, but by the 1990 s it lost its competitive edge.

For example, China s labor intensive export sectors are losing their competitive edge. They must be allowed to decline or move inland (and eventually decline).

Uganda wants a strong local content in the nascent oil and gas industry for its citizens to gain skilled manpower and a competitive supply edge.

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.

Such disturbing developments reveal the extent to which Governments and employers are prepared to suppress workers' rights to win a competitive edge in today's cut throat global markets.

Thus, they would minimize the deterioration in their trade surpluses, maintain competitive exchange rates, and safeguard their foreign reserves and net creditor positions.

With America turning away from its global role of borrower of last resort, the rest of us will need to sharpen our competitive edge to sell in other markets.

In this regard, special and differential treatment should be accorded to landlocked developing countries to compensate for their geographical disadvantages which erode their competitive edge at the world market.

Some strops have a linen or canvas back embedded with a fine abrasive used to maintain a sharp edge before final polishing with the leather side.

The first option would require coercion, and since countries will not accept that others should gain a competitive edge an international agreement to forego the benefits that genetic enhancement can bring.

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Their small size simultaneously creates a need to be competitive to survive and provides them the agility to do so., SMEs are often at the leading edge of technological development and innovation.

These countries did not want to be recipients of capital inflows, because they realized that this would wreak havoc with their need to maintain competitive currencies.

The Raj era may be visible in the buildings of New Delhi and in the uniforms of the Indian army, but Britain has lost any competitive edge that it once had in India.

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.

Additional border crossings and the long distance from major markets, coupled with cumbersome procedures and inadequate infrastructure, substantially increase the total expenses for the transport services that erode the competitive edge of landlocked developing countries.

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Societies that discover how to use the education and talent of half their populations, while allowing women and their partners to invest in their families, will have a competitive edge in the global knowledge innovation economy.

It was therefore a bizarre coincidence that the merger s collapse came on the day that the Commission unveiled its new industrial strategy for regaining Europe s competitive edge in the face of Asian and North American competition.

In this respect, TNCs from the South can use their familiarity with the local business environment, geographical proximity and ethnic and cultural ties to leverage their competitive edge in other developing countries (Aykut and Ratha, 2004).

Economic stagnation on this scale has alarming implications, because it means less and less tax revenues to fund all the reform projects and infrastructural investments Europe badly needs to regain its productivity and high tech competitive edge.

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Some factors precluding foreign entry may be related to the size of the domestic market, given the low purchasing capacity of people in general, the weak competitive edge of domestic players and the lack of established physical infrastructure.

But fear not, claim advocates of unconventional monetary policy. What central banks cannot achieve with traditional tools can now be accomplished through the circuitous channels of wealth effects in asset markets or with the competitive edge gained from currency depreciation.

National competitive examinations

In particular, hot capital inflows make it difficult for financially open economies like Brazil to maintain a competitive currency, depriving them of what is in effect the most potent form of industrial policy imaginable.

They camped at the water's edge.

Living at the edge of chaos.

He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling.

Is Finance Too Competitive?

First, they were competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices

(a) Competitive entry process

(a) Competitive entry process

Sami's letter sent Layla over the edge.

When did Operation Protective Edge take place?

Now colour every edge red or blue.

When they were sitting at its edge .

You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling and likewise you shall make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.

It's a pre competitive issue.

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