Those countries that persist with these reform efforts could well emerge leaner and more competitive.

First, its currency would naturally depreciate, making exports more competitive and imports more expensive.

Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive. Other countries enjoyed housing and consumption booms on the back of cheap credit, making them less competitive.

We found in our research that countries with competitive currencies were much more likely to experience growth enhancing structural change.

Indeed, avoiding continuous competitive devaluations is more a blessing than a curse.

But investments in education and research, together with a strong social safety net, can lead to a more productive and competitive economy, with more security and higher living standards for all.

Students who showed to be more competitive lacked in their interaction and trust with others, as well as in their emotional involvement with other students.

Asian countries attract many jobs by creating industrial parks, with more reliable services, including ultra reliable communications networks, offered at competitive prices.

These are magnified in a globalized, liberalized and competitive international economic environment and with the increasing incidence of more devastating natural disasters.

By restructuring their secondary schools and universities to train graduates with skills demanded by multinational corporations, Asian countries also create more competitive workforces.

Kuroda s stance has already weakened the yen s exchange rate, making Japanese goods more competitive.

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

This, we are told, will make Latin America s exports of manufactured goods more competitive internationally.

A new Franco German axis that makes France more competitive is just what Europe needs.

The shortage of university slots has made a rigorous testing system all the more competitive.

ISPs would benefit from more competitive conditions for the purchase of international leased circuit capacity.

Doing so requires Japanese policymakers to focus on more sustainable growth while averting a vicious cycle of competitive devaluation and protectionism with Japan s trade partners.

But others, such as wind, solar, and geothermal, are in some circumstances already cost competitive or nearly cost competitive with fossil fuels.

Devaluation renders exports more competitive, thus substituting external demand for the domestic demand that is being compressed.

And, despite a more competitive exchange rate, the US continues to run a large current account deficit.

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

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

With low interest rates, price stability, a more competitive exchange rate, a lower tax burden, plentiful resources for investment, and the reduction of electricity tariffs, Brazil is strengthening its potential for more rapid expansion.

Investments with significant anti competitive effects must be modified or blocked.

The main change was a large reduction in interest rates, in line with an inflation targeting framework, which has led to a more competitive exchange rate policy.

In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

To what extent can ICTs enable tourism enterprises in developing countries to become more competitive on tourism markets?

With a less competitive currency, many analysts hope, China will export less and import more, making a positive contribution to the recovery of the US and other economies.

However, with installment financing, monthly costs become not only manageable, but competitive with traditional fuels.

Fast food. With the fast food industry you know, it's very competitive.

This resulted in a significant reduction in the interest rate differential with other countries, which, together with a more active intervention policy in the spot and future markets, brought the exchange rate to a much more competitive level, despite the global currency war.

That, in turn, requires making Greek goods and services more competitive relative to those of the country s trading partners.

Indeed, it might be that a liberal constitutional culture is more important than the mere fact of competitive elections.

Above all, local companies need to be supported when they make moves to become more efficient, innovative, and competitive.

Indeed, greater competitive pressure may increase the fragility of banks balance sheets and make investors more prone to panics.

The Commission nevertheless found these concerns to be more a fear of competition than of actual anti competitive practices.

Backing competitive education, innovation, technology, energy, and a more efficient and accessible health care system complements and reinforces Obama s leadership approach of setting an example with one s own policies.

National competitive examinations

Remaining in a currency union with the much more competitive German economy will require wrenching and rapid reforms, for which Hollande s tepid approach will fail to prepare the complacent French.

In other cases, firms may expand abroad to develop a more effective and competitive production structure, by exploiting country differences with regard to skills availability, costs and infrastructure, for example.

The path to a more open, competitive, efficient, and humane economy will surely be bumpy in the years to come.

The dollar is declining because only a more competitive dollar can shrink the US trade deficit to a sustainable level.

Unemployment is rising, their economies are not becoming more competitive, and the interest rates on their debt continue to rise.

Over time, they will foster productivity and flexibility, and the countries that implement them thoroughly should thus become more competitive.

The more we insist that a banking system should be competitive, the greater the risks that individual banks will take.