A fairly applied, consistent merger regime was preferable and would be unlikely to harm small and medium sized Jamaican firms.

The concentration of women in certain professions has other consequences too. Primarily, it leads to increased competition within such professions and the weakening of the general competitiveness of women in the overall labour market.

A wide range of factors such as the social and economic context and the legal system may influence the division.

The competition is fierce.

The Competition Factor

Competition related issues

Memorandum regarding Cooperation in Competition Policy among the Fair Trade Commission of the Republic of Korea, the Interstate Council for Antimonopoly Policy of CIS countries, the Competition Council of the Republic of Latvia and the Competition Council of Romania, September 2003.

The appropriate place to draw the line conceptually is at pre competitive, generic science and technology.

It is even worse to leave our children without adequate infrastructure and the other public investments needed to be competitive in the twenty first century.

It's a pre competitive issue.

Competition and consumer policies

The APEC training programme on competition policy, which also aims at supporting the implementation of those Principles especially focusing on competition policy, has contributed to the encouragement of competition culture and the effective enforcement of competition law in the region through exchange of views and information.

In this instance, judges need to learn about the importance of competition policy and the principles of competition analysis.

For the Club Med members of the euro zone Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal public debt problems come on top of a loss of international competitiveness.

And competition does play a role here.

Politicizing EU Competition Policy

There is a trade off between competition and stability.

First, they were competitive.

Are you going to compete? No. No one's going to win this thing.

Competition authorities, on the other hand, tend to believe that the more competition, the better.

First is the development of a competition culture an understanding by the public of the benefits of competition and broad based support for a strong competition policy.

Developing countries' competition authorities now do sometimes participate in exchanges of general information, as well as some case specific exchanges of information.

The objectives of free trade and competition are often complementary, but this may not always be the case. Indeed, in the context of free trade, competition policy is intimately connected with the policy pillars of liberalization, deregulation and privatization.

United Nations Secretariat contractual restrictions, salary scales, grading of specialists and benefits are not competitive, even compared with those of other parts of the United Nations system.

These principles apply equally at the regional level, where the principle of subsidiarity should keep regulation at the level of governance consistent with the achievement of regulatory effectiveness that takes into account an appropriate balance of economic efficiency, social objectives and political legitimacy.

The draft COMESA Competition Regulations apply to all economic activity whether conducted by private or public entities and have primary jurisdiction over industries or sectors, which are the subject of a separate regulatory entity.

Box 2. OECD guidelines for apportioning competition enhancing tasks between competition agencies and regulators

In other words, the country may lack a competition culture, which is the foundation of an effective competition policy.

Is Finance Too Competitive?

The competition has not been without controversy.

The Mongolia Premier League is the top domestic competition.

Work to develop a competition culture.

To encourage self help, international efforts must ensure that free competition goes together with fair competition.

Competition experts agree that the most severe sanctions available under a competition law should be reserved for cartel operators.

Thailand's experience has also shown that competition not only at the national but also the local level could be important.

Then the competition part ideological, part beauty contest can start all over again.

Minority public ownership can provide resources, while retaining the benefits of competition, and ensure that some of the returns accrue to the general public via government revenues.

Competition is like a treadmill.

Competition is another example.

Competition as a social principle was downgraded in favor of cooperation.

ISIS in Mexico would have too much competition here. I think they are not going to stand out.

WTO Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy, Report on the meeting of 11 13 March 1998 (WT WGTCP M 4), paragraph 52.

Convinced of the need to disseminate the culture of competition,

(b) An updated version of the Directory of Competition Authorities and

(d) Relationship between competition law and policy and subsidies.