It does not want to see its industries outdated and uncompetitive.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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

But, as we now know, Germany did become competitive again too competitive, according to some, owing to a combination of wage restraint and productivity enhancing structural reforms.

The problem is all the more pressing because countries can achieve gains in market share not only through higher private sector competitiveness, but also by means of protectionist measures.

Within the next three years, online bookmark services became competitive, with venture backed companies such as Backflip, Blink, Clip2, ClickMarks, HotLinks, and others entering the market.

Some of them prevailed and strengthened their position on the market, being able to compete with multinational tour operators like TUI, or Neckermann und Reisen with branches in Poland.

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

In response to recommendation 10, the UNOG Division of Administration has finalized a survey of the local construction industry, which has determined the construction fees for the UNOG security projects to be competitive.

Global supply chains constantly in flux, owing to rising developing country incomes and shifting comparative advantage locate productive activities where human and other resources make those activities competitive.

CA So what happened was that, through increased ability to use fracking technology, the calculated reserves of natural gas kind of exploded and the price plummeted, which made wind uncompetitive.

It was able but only it was able to organize health care, education, policing, justice.

The key point is that developing countries that are concerned about the competitiveness of their modern sectors can afford to allow their currencies to appreciate (in real terms) as long as they have access to alternative policies that promote industrial activities more directly.

In a nutshell, unless competitive production facilities are built up, unless supply side capacities are created, unless domestic entrepreneurship is nurtured and linked to international investment and technology flows, developing countries will be unable to reduce poverty in a sustainable manner.

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.

The revocation of patent protection for medicines in 1972 greatly expanded access to essential medicines, and led to the growth of a globally competitive domestic industry that is often called the pharmacy of the developing world.

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.

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.

Fostering a more dynamic, innovative SME sector that will produce tomorrow s globally competitive large companies requires removing disincentives to growth, such as the inheritance tax exemption for family owned businesses, which rewards owners for keeping their businesses small.