There was an urgent need to enable those countries to become globally competitive on a sustainable basis.

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Right?

The young are born blind, gaining sight after two weeks.

By restructuring their secondary schools and universities to train graduates with skills demanded by multinational corporations, Asian countries also create more competitive workforces.

It does not want to see its industries outdated and uncompetitive.

It seemed as if the bottom billion would have to wait their turn for development, until giant industrializers like China became rich and uncompetitive in labor intensive manufacturing.

Moreover, building competitive markets is essential to ensuring sustainable GDP growth.

DMOs and tourism enterprises in developing countries urgently need to adopt ICTs and adapt business processes and management structures to globalization in order to become competitive in this new marketplace.

It may also be necessary to develop new competitive technologies and innovative applications, especially at the level of increasingly export oriented enterprises.

The dynamics of adjustment within the eurozone exacerbate the underlying imbalances Germany is becoming more competitive while the periphery remains uncompetitive.

When private jobs are no longer competitive, government jobs seem an easy solution to keeping people employed.

With its oil income and good neighborly relations with Turkey, such a state would be viable.

The third requirement was continued empowerment of women, so that they could take control of their own lives and bodies.

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

UNIDO assisted the Government of Egypt to prepare a white paper for A Competitive Egypt , and is starting a major project in Saudi Arabia for the design of strategies to enhance industrial competitiveness and diversification

For wheat, it is even likely that parts of Africa simply will be unable to sustain production.

Japan s high tech industries remain competitive, and the country is still the world s second largest exporter. It retains a highly innovative economy, which registers more new patents each year than all European countries combined second only to the US and eons ahead of China and India.

So if the web was made entirely out of dragline silk, an insect is very likely to just bounce right off. But by having really, really stretchy capture spiral silk, the web is actually able to absorb the impact of that intercepted prey.

Over time, they will foster productivity and flexibility, and the countries that implement them thoroughly should thus become more competitive.

One payoff can come from Africans building distinctive satellite instruments, and thus spawning a globally competitive industry.

In a stable world of confident markets, small countries can rest easy with their own monetary regimes.

This is regarded as inefficient because firms cannot adjust quickly to changing business conditions.

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

Many coal fired power plants would be uncompetitive if they were required to internalize these costs.

Four years later, there were about 400,000 personal computers in the Soviet Union, and 40 million in the US. According to one Soviet economist, by the late 1980 s, only 8 of Soviet industry was globally competitive.

Banks defenses need to be fortified during excessive upswings in asset prices so that they are able to weather the inevitable reversals.

When a large number of sensitive cells are killed, say, by aggressive therapies, resistant types can proliferate unconstrained.

But, as Hollande s recent declarations indicate, currency appreciation is the last thing that an uncompetitive country like France needs.

The World Bank recommends decentralizing school administration and decision making so that schools are more responsive to local needs.

If people are saving half their income, their investments in capital have the potential to propel the economy at a rapid pace.

Through consistent outreach and technical support, UNICEF endeavours to strengthen community networks to be able to protect and care for their children.

By maintaining high environmental standards, and promoting such standards among its trade partners, Europe can bolster the global market for clean energy technologies.

Most importantly, they have maintained competitive currencies, which is the best way to ensure high profits for manufacturers.

We found in our research that countries with competitive currencies were much more likely to experience growth enhancing structural change.

Second, parts of global supply chains that were not competitive are no longer protected by being adjacent to parts that were.

Silicon Valley CEOs say they will not expand in California because of high taxes and burdensome regulation, which make the state uncompetitive.

Within a few years, the vast majority of the world will have access to wireless broadband.

Our first commercial food irradiation plant is now under construction and should be operational by the end of next year.

If the renminbi were to gain in value, poor countries exports would become more competitive, and their economies would become better positioned to reap the benefits of globalization.

These can greatly enhance their productivity and growth potential if they network with other firms to address common problems and achieve economies of scale and scope.

There is an unavoidable conflict of interest between (usually foreign) natural resource companies and host countries the former want to minimize what they pay, while the latter need to maximize it.

Our approach provides policymakers in developing countries with a framework to tackle the daunting coordination challenges inherent in the creation of new, competitive industries.

Yet not all minorities long subject to discrimination necessarily succeed under conditions of market competition.

The purpose of Empretec is to help foster entrepreneurial capabilities and the growth of internationally competitive SMEs in developing countries.

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.