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.

As a result, whenever they do hire staff in Europe or North America, they often need to be able to fire them quickly and keep costs as low as possible, to remain competitive.

It does not want to see its industries outdated and uncompetitive.

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

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

It is important to keep enterprises alive as going concerns, in order to preserve jobs and growth.

If one firm evades excise taxes, and the tax rate is high compared to pre tax profit margins in the industry, its competitors also have to cheat, just in order to survive.

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.

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

Of course, some of the better managed emerging market economies will continue to experience rapid growth and asset outperformance.

It is probably a good thing that structured competition between large center right and center left parties persists.

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

In such cases, war, as the Egyptians showed in 1973, might still serve as an avenue to resolving a conflict.

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.

Public institutions are likely to remain only partially able to finance and implement large scale social assistance programmes in the near term.

In decades to come, China can no longer sustain the cost advantages that defined its initial period of export success.

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

But it remains questionable whether the region s new faces can end the old patterns of mismanagement and abuse.

But the devil is in the details, and, even in the most optimistic scenario, the trade off between competition and stability will remain.

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

In order to remain a country that punches above its weight diplomatically, it is in France s interest to operate through international organizations rather than to rely on bilateral relationships.

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.

When these two accounting standards diverge, the popular standard must prevail if democracy is to survive.

While the US remains the world s most powerful single country, it cannot maintain, much less expand, international peace and prosperity on its own.

It is a benign form of global competition that increases productivity everywhere, provided that the markets for final and intermediate goods and services remain open.

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.

But it should be the good news for competitiveness, because Chinese wages will remain relatively low in terms of wage efficiency.

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.

Central banks have been handed the job of keeping economies afloat, but most of the money that they print remains stuck in the banking system, unable to arrest stagnating consumption and falling investment.

Although this plan would prop up the value of the financial system as a whole, it would still allow market forces to determine relative share prices of individual banks.

Yesterday s treaties, particularly those with the United States and Israel, will no longer inspire the same type of confidence they have long had as instruments of state policy.

The aim is to bring these pilot enterprises into compliance with environmental standards, while taking into account their need to remain competitive and to deal with the social consequences of major technology upgrading.

As a result, China s innovative capacity remains relatively low, with its high tech and knowledge intensive industries unable to compete globally.

While some of France s largest companies like Michelin, LVMH, and Air Liquide remain successful, they cannot offset the economy s lack of a solid base of small and medium size enterprises.

Finally, export growth slowed, not primarily because Indian goods suddenly became uncompetitive, but because growth in the country s traditional export markets decelerated.

Lesotho relied on the support of its friends for much needed capacity building in various areas in order to overcome productivity shortcomings and be able to compete internationally.