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

On both counts, Europe still rates highly.

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

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.

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

In particular, Housing, which is highly sensitive to interest rates, could help lead a recovery.

Furthermore, with record high unemployment rates, Europe needs jobs in dynamic, competitive industries that cannot easily be outsourced.

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

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

It has also pressured other East Asian countries to under value their exchange rates in order to remain competitive with Japan.

The fact is that a weaker dollar resulting from lower interest rates gives the US a slight competitive advantage in trade.

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.

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

Easy access to guns in the US leads to horrific murder rates relative to other highly educated and wealthy societies.

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.

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.

To respond to inflation by increasing interest rates would simply compound the difficulties of high prices with high unemployment and an even less competitive exchange rate.

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.

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.

And, as more and more countries intervene to weaken their exchange rates in response to America s attempt at competitive devaluation through quantitative easing, the problem is becoming worse.

However, over time these ultra low interest rates have promoted a highly speculative financial carry trade speculators borrow yen at low interest rates and then buy dollars and other currencies that are invested in higher yield assets elsewhere.

Of this amount, just over 239 million represented International Development Association loans, made at highly concessional rates, and 261 million represented International Bank for Reconstruction and Development loans, made at rates closer to those prevailing in the market.

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

San Marino is considered to have a highly stable economy, with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe, no national debt and a budget surplus.

National competitive examinations

High rates of morbidity and mortality are still common in many low income countries, especially those highly affected by infectious diseases such as HIV AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

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.

But the evidence is that highly effective fiscal policy, even at the zero lower bound on interest rates, remains at best a theoretical possibility, subject to severe political constraints.

A decade of historically low interest rates has led to economic imbalances in favor of sectors that are highly leveraged the financial sector, the housing market, and private equity.

Is Finance Too Competitive?

First, they were competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices

(a) Competitive entry process

(a) Competitive entry process

The assumption here unstated and highly questionable is that the US will be able to sell an unlimited amount of government debt at low interest rates for the foreseeable future.

And low interest rates will encourage firms that do invest to spend on fixed capital like highly automated machines, thereby ensuring that, when recovery comes, it will be relatively jobless.

It may seem appalling to expect such a highly indebted country to continue to run deficits but the world is willing to finance the US at negative real interest rates.

There is a common sense consensus among borrowers in China, as well as in highly indebted advanced economies that raising interest rates would undermine GDP growth, employment, and asset prices.

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.