Provide business opportunities (vendor rationalization by eliminating non competitive firms and fostering competitive ones)

Global competitiveness.

National competitive examinations

Extent of competitive bidding

It has also been noted that the use of ERAs reduced the number of contracts awarded through non competitive methods.

Amid weakening competitiveness, the rupee was propped up by increasingly unstable foreign sources of funds.

Evolution does a really, really good job of deselecting traits that aren't advantageous to us and selecting traits for competitive advantage.

Europe s Competitiveness Obsession

Competitiveness Surveys

(a) Competitive entry process

B. Promoting competitive markets . 6 4

Failure to encourage competitive bidding

Muted wage growth increases competitiveness, and underutilized labor and capital are redeployed.

(a) Competitive entry process

Investment and enterprise competitiveness

3. Administration of competitive examinations and tests

Table 3. External competitive examinations

Table 4. External competitive examinations

This will force small and medium producers to become more competitive, but they must do so on an uneven playing field.

It has a new challenge competitiveness.

France, too, has competitiveness problems, and is unable to meet its commitments under the European Union s Fiscal Compact.

Poorly managed revenue, however, can cause appreciation of the real exchange rate and reduce the competitiveness of the non booming part of the economy.

There will also be a decline in competitiveness.

As a result, France s competitiveness is deteriorating.

But what sort of competitiveness do they have in mind?

Service Module 3 Industrial competitiveness and trade

Matching competitive features is what we used to do and actually is a going out of business strategy.

The investment required for competitive revival and sustained recovery cannot be funded without a long overdue improvement in US saving.

Anchoring the exchange rate is likely to result in disproportionate real appreciation, loss of competitiveness, external and financial crises, and disastrous recessions.

Yet European competitiveness is in danger.

The Conference may wish to consider the information provided in the present document and provide appropriate guidance.

And because of this idea, we have become, as you know, extremely competitive in our society.

Even Greece, despite its rapidly eroding competitiveness and increasingly unsustainable fiscal path, could attract the capital that it needed.

However, firms active in the distribution sector have expressed concerns about the impact of high infrastructural costs on competitiveness.

Barriers to competitiveness include inefficient operational and production processes, weak management capabilities and labour skills, and inadequate technology and information.

The link between environmental policies, market access and competitiveness was, however, a complex one which needed further examination in the light of specific cases.

It may be that the coming years will somehow see solutions to the EU s lost competitiveness, poor innovation, shrinking manufacturing, inadequate education, and growing labor shortages.

Fast and sustainable economic growth requires the rule of law, accountable, meritocratic, and non corrupt bureaucrats, protection of property rights, contract enforcement, and competitive markets. Such institutions are difficult to build in every society.

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

With the increasing policy and analytical interest in services, their competitiveness and the effect they have on the competitiveness of the rest of the economy, increased attention is being given to the basic infrastructure of business statistics.

It will also continue to address the changing determinants of international competitiveness and examine the factors that influence the competitive advantage of countries and their enterprises in this rapidly changing international environment.

But where will increased competitiveness come from?

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

But this confuses economic competitiveness with military power.

Competitive bidding was not systematically used (Angola and Namibia).