What matters is dynamic comparative advantage, or comparative advantage in the long run, which can be shaped.

One is a shift in comparative advantage.

And this was before the students had been instructed in the wonders of comparative advantage!

LDCs' comparative advantage is in exports of labour intensive services.

The aim of a free trade area is to reduce barriers to exchange so that trade can grow as a result of specialisation, division of labour, and most importantly via comparative advantage.

Egypt s comparative advantage lies in labor intensive services as opposed to one time products

That comparative advantage can just as easily be in services as in manufacturing or agriculture.

From this perspective, these countries comparative advantage is having other countries exploit their resources.

Different types of micro organism dominate different layers based on their comparative advantage for living in that layer.

It is often said that the EU's comparative advantage lies in its normative power, or the power of its values.

For example, Apple s iPhone and Boeing s latest airplane rely heavily on Japanese patented innovations. These comparative advantages may keep Japan above water for a while, but only until China or South Korea catch up.

The proposals range from clustering commitments (as opposed to taking subsector specific commitments) and harmonizing all commitments for this sector to developing an understanding' on the scope of commitments under CRS.

Pursuing its comparative advantage strengthens a country s resilience to crisis and allows for the rapid accumulation of human and physical capital.

This may be particularly relevant today, with China s rising wages and appreciating exchange rate underscoring rapid change in global comparative and competitive advantage.

As the services produced and traded across the world expand with globalization, the possibilities for all countries to develop based on their comparative advantage expand.

In developing countries, import substitution as a way to jump start economic diversification can work for a while but, over time, as productivity growth lags and comparative advantage is over ridden, growth grinds to a halt.

But curtailing social programs in both Europe and Russia would jeopardize human capital, their most valuable comparative advantage.

Over the next decade, as Chinese workers demand higher salaries, basic benefits, and improved working conditions, the country may well lose the comparative advantage that has driven its manufacturing boom.

The sharp differences in comparative advantage that were apparent two decades ago are diminishing as the gap in income, capital depth (including human capital), and capabilities narrows.

It is my hope that China s comparative advantage as a low wage producer does disappear the sooner the better.

Rising incomes require rising productivity. That means increasing capital and human capital intensity across both the tradable and non tradable sectors of the economy.

One could follow, for example, Adam Smith s principle of comparative advantage what Europe does best is the state, while Asia still relies on the family and the US continues to focus on individual initiative.

The gains from such pacts stem from a variety of factors, the most important of which is comparative advantage countries specialize in producing the goods and services that they are relatively most efficient at producing, and trade these goods and services for others.

In this context and in order to fully build upon the comparative advantage of the Convention implementation process at the national level, the secretariat encouraged parties, when applicable, to consider entrusting their respective national committees on desertification with this task.

Additional border crossings and the long distance from major markets, coupled with cumbersome procedures and inadequate infrastructure, substantially increase the total expenses for the transport services that erode the competitive edge of landlocked developing countries.

Simply put, figuring out how to do one thing often makes it easier to do other things. In this way, a government that is exacting about the quality of its purchases can have a powerful impact on the evolution of its country s comparative advantage.

Economists regard understanding the theory of comparative advantage as a test of professional competence. But are the incompetents say, the average person who believes that buying cheap imports from China destroys Western jobs always wrong?

For America and Europe, the need for labor to move out of manufacturing is compounded by shifting comparative advantage not only is the total number of manufacturing jobs limited globally, but a smaller share of those jobs will be local.

The comparative advantage of UNICEF lies particularly in its ability to support the linkages and synergies between policy, processes and interventions at each of these levels in support of better and more cost effective results for young children.

The essence of globalization free trade rests on the theory of comparative advantage, which views international trade as profitable even for a country that can produce every commodity more cheaply (in terms of labor or all resources) than any other country.

The key is to have the right policy framework in place to facilitate private sector alignment with the country s comparative advantages, and to benefit from latecomer advantages in the process of structural change.

A final advantage of this solution is that it would be temporary.

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With Croatia s accession at the beginning of July, the EU now consists of 28 member states, each of which has its own particular set of special interests pressing for trade promotion or protection, based on comparative advantage, history, and raw domestic political power.

One Hundred Years of Relativity

Well, it s the relative importance.

Maybe we're the ones who have taken this natural advantage we had and we spoiled it.

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Hawking discusses black hole thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics.

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But this advantage does not extend to other policy areas.

This geography is Turkey s natural historical and cultural hinterland.

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Moreover, re casting the World Bank s mission in this way taps the Bank s distinct comparative advantage relative to the dozens of bilateral aid agencies and hundreds of non governmental organizations that work in developing countries. This makes the Bank s involvement particularly valuable.