Recovery was difficult to achieve, but the Common Market has profited from Germany s renewed competitiveness.

Europe s Competitiveness Obsession

They include increased competitiveness of firms, knowledge and technology acquisition, market expansion abroad and increased profitability, including as a result of economies of scale.

There will also be a decline in competitiveness.

Yet European competitiveness is in danger.

But where will increased competitiveness come from?

But what sort of competitiveness do they have in mind?

Service Module 3 Industrial competitiveness and trade

Improving competitiveness and supply capacities requires targeted national policies complemented by massive international support for enhanced productivity and meeting market requirements.

IMPROVING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF SMEs THROUGH ENHANCING PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY

Improving the Competitiveness of SMEs through Enhancing Productive Capacity.

Enterprise competitiveness and development

At its closing plenary meeting, on 25 February 2005, the Commission decided that the Chairperson's summaries on items 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 should be incorporated into its report.

Theme Improving the competitiveness of SMEs through enhancing productive capacity

Efficient transport and trade facilitation to improve participation by developing countries in international trade

Impact of investing abroad on enterprise competitiveness Selected cases an indicators

What is it exactly that maintains that competitive edge at it's core?

In order to ensure Cambodia's competitiveness among regional players in the global market, more attention would be given to the development of technology and knowledge based industries.

Do we have the comparative advantage to use another sort of energy?

But this confuses economic competitiveness with military power.

Enhancing the competitiveness of developing countries' firms through internationalization

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Item 3 Promoting the competitiveness and internationalization of developing countries' firms

Item 3 Improving the competitiveness of SMEs through enhancing productive capacity

The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness. But where will increased competitiveness come from?

The meeting was held on 8 10 December 2004 and addressed the work of the Commission in the field of enterprise competitiveness, focusing on enhancing the export competitiveness of SMEs.

Does OFDI increase competitiveness of firms and how could competitiveness from OFDI be measured?

And yet, competitiveness in Greece and Portugal, in particular, is not improving.

International competitiveness became the mantra of German economic policymaking.

(f) Identifying measures to increase the competitiveness of African economies and their participation in international trade

The fact that the software industry is a skill intensive industry and largely dependent upon foreign markets encouraged Indian SMEs to operate abroad.

Also, attaining competitiveness will require an increase in efficiency in the whole supply chain management.

It might have a positive impact on competitiveness of firms in developing countries.

Internet based distribution of tourism products has become crucial for effective market entry and for the competitiveness of tourism operators from developing countries.

On improving the competitiveness of SMALL AND

European competitiveness does not have only a global dimension.

Policy Options for Strengthening SME Competitiveness

While they cannot resolve all the problems of the sector, commodity exchanges can boost market efficiency, enhance competitiveness, increase resilience to shocks and integrate into the sector critical auxiliary services such as commodity finance and warehousing.

More troubling, Eurobonds would not eliminate divergences in competitiveness.

38 For example, through strengthening institutions that provide long term finance, such as development banks and, where appropriate, bond markets.

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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.

Restoring competitiveness in some member countries (Spain, Greece) would require others (Germany in the first instance) to accept deterioration in theirs.

Restoring elements of manufacturing competitiveness is hard.

Otherwise, the competitiveness gains would be offset by rising inflation.