Carrefour the largest foreign firm is number four, with a market share of 9.9 per cent.

While the United States continued to be the dominant market, its share of the market declined from 34 per cent to 29 per cent over the second quarter.

Trade gains fell below expectations in many key commodity areas, and Africa suffered a decline in market share.

Africa alone had lost 2.6 billion as a result of the Uruguay Round, and its share of the world market had fallen to only 2 per cent.

Smuggling is abetted by the tobacco industry in order to gain market share and scare finance ministers into lowering taxes.

In a market economy, however, competition rapidly leads to emulation, and high profits associated with an original innovation turn out to be transitory.

She wants her share, too.

Such efficiency gains from increasing the extent of the market and promoting specialization should have produced rapid growth in Mexican productivity.

They tend to look for short term gains at the expense of others, reinforcing a generalized skepticism about the market.

Efficiency gains

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.

Its share in the more important Council of Ministers is only 8 , the same as that of the French, whose population share is 13 .

With the EU helping to keep global markets open, European exports have held up rather well, with the EU maintaining its market share.

Efficiency gains

These are economies that, even a decade ago, were losing market share to China and Asia, owing to their labor intensive and low value added exports.

The city states have sent their quota in men and arms.

Financial Gain, Economic Pain

Coupled with this is a zero sum view of the world, in which any Chinese gain in the share of the global economy, or any increased presence in many parts of the world, must be at the expense of the US or other powers.

We hope that other countries will also chip in with their fair share of contributions.

In the past two decades, developing countries have nearly doubled their share of the word merchandise trade.

In my high school I had a teacher, her class was my biggest joy in the week.

As a result, a significant proportion of past sector investments have not resulted in lasting benefits.

Africa s Eurobond Bonanza

There are rich opportunities for gains.

Imperialism certainly added its quota to these.

(e) Unrealized exchange gains and losses

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D. Transferring part of the peace dividends

We deceive to gain advantage, and to hide our weaknesses.

We deceive to gain advantage and to hide our weaknesses.

But we also have a straightforward political impact.

High tech businesses have helped enormously in this effort by showing that India has more to gain than lose from competing in the global marketplace.

Significant gains have been made on every continent in advancing democracy.

OMV increased its stake in Hungarian oil group MOL to 20.2 in 2007.

Their share in total assistance funded by UPU resources is some 55 per cent.

Finally, much of the reduction at a global level has taken place in the former Soviet Union, where the benefits of any potential peace dividend have been overwhelmed by the temporary economic difficulties experienced in making the transition to a market economy.

Radical Islamic parties failed to make any gains.

This included 1.5 million in exchange rate gains.

However, due to battery patents, controlled by the oil industry, which limits their ability to maintain market share, coupled with political pressure from the energy industry, the accessibility and affordability of this technology is limited.

On testing the market

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No Pain, No Gain for Britain?

Collaboration has led to some stunning gains.

This approach offers distinct benefits to both sides.

Market research data is wonderful on the size of markets in the past, but if market researchers were great at predicting the future, they'd actually be running hedge funds, so one of the things I don't accept from my students is,