Trade focused on the local market and the West, particularly Germany and the United Kingdom.

Support the creation of applications (or toolkits) that will meet the needs of the local market and lead to the strengthening of local and regional expertise.

The domestic market and a growing middle class will assume greater prominence.

Mexico provides further proof that the market alone is not enough.

And they keep coming back to us, at all ages, as they enter and leave the market.

The United Kingdom s domestic market is, after all, much smaller than that of the United States.

Another issue that was raised concerned the effects of TNC operations on the local market structure and the need to safeguard against the crowding out of local companies, products and customs.

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).

The exporting arm of the joint venture would deprive the local Zimbabwean market of furniture items.

As an agriculturally based economy, Vanuatu is subject to the fluctuating global market for its produce.

Non EurepGAP compliant suppliers therefore even risk losing domestic market shares.

To empower the domestic market to drive income growth, and to accelerate the growth of the middle class, these numbers need to shift.

First, the country's limited domestic market is a very significant push factor in propelling Singapore enterprises to expand their markets abroad.

Of course, hardline supporters of free markets will say that we should.

Given past experience, we cannot rely on market reputation to ensure that such ratings will be reliable.

New projects are more market driven, with donors focus gradually shifting to building the capacity of domestic regulatory and technical institutions, and to strengthening the position of existing private sector firms to serve the market.

The absence of regulation in the market can be perverse, and suggests that domestic monopolistic behaviour in the wholesale segment by domestic companies could be replaced by foreign monopolies controlling the market.

To help these domestic powerhouses increase their market leverage, the government often favors them at the expense of foreign competitors.

(a) Wishes to see a thriving domestically supplied United Kingdom biofuel industry develop

Over time, the persistence of these conditions undermined the competitiveness of domestic industry, impeding sales of Brazilian products not only internationally, but also in the robust and growing internal market.

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.

Proper training and technical assistance in local capacity building is therefore now a priority for us.

We in the developing world must mobilize domestic financial resources for that purpose.

They are lucky that hostility to competition in what purports to be the homeland of free market capitalism has kept Asian airlines out of their domestic marketplace.

All these changes aim to recognize local sensitivities, avoid conflict with local culture, customs, common habits, and enter the local market by merging into its needs and desires.

Indeed, with roughly 130 million middle class consumers, China s domestic market holds significant potential.

In contrast to industrial logging, pit sawing (processing logs using chainsaws) is increasing as the domestic market grows.

It also means a lower value for the dollar, and thus more opportunities for US located firms to export and supply the domestic market.

With so many political officials crafting crisis responses to solve local problems or to create local opportunities, how likely are they to agree on a unified international approach?

Domestic measures aimed at encouraging the performance of local firms should support and even precede the opening up of the markets to international competition in order to ensure that all market players can take full advantage of those benefits that arise with the entry of FDI into the local market.

Export led growth meant that China could produce without worrying about developing the domestic market.

In 1977, Michael Wagner, a fish processor in Santa Barbara, California, in cooperation with local commercial fisherman, developed the market for angel sharks.

Construction of Israeli settlements and the separation wall has split the local market and made all forms of economic activity difficult.

A larger domestic market encourages diversification of the national economy, reducing dependence on exports of natural resources and, in turn, exposure to global price fluctuations.

This would cause a shift from exports to production for the domestic market, thereby shrinking the trade surplus, in addition to curbing inflation.

It allows us to test things as an entrepreneur, to go to market, to be in conversation with people, listen, refine something and go back.

But reorienting their businesses toward the Chinese domestic market requires far more than government policies that put more money in consumers' pockets.

Elders in the community recall collecting mercury from the local toxic waste dump by pouring water, then selling the collected mercury on the black market.

This process eliminates the domestic market for agricultural products in the developing world, because the products can be obtained for free from western aid agencies.

In addition, throughout the duration of the programme, Jordan will need to ensure that sufficient numbers of livestock are available to meet local demand for meat.

If we place imperfect knowledge at the heart of economic analysis, the implications of our limited ability to predict market outcomes becomes clear.

The longer the crisis continues, the more obvious it becomes that the common currency and the ECB alone are not enough to defend the Common Market and European integration.

Its ultimate aim is to nurture a host of dynamic and innovative Singapore enterprises that can serve the domestic market and invest in the regional and global marketplace.

To see this, consider what a market economy is all about. Some, including Pope Francis, would say that it is about greed a system in which everybody cares only about herself.

In India, for example, there is fear that small mom and pop retailers will be crushed when Wal Mart enters the market in the next few months. But policymakers must recognize that there are ways to protect small retailers without stifling competition.