However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

Porter, M.E. (1990), The Competitive Advantage of Nations, Free Press, New York.

(a) Investment in MFIs, building potential market leaders and competitive microfinance sectors.

They have proved that they can be competitive in a market economy.

Hong Kong and Singapore have played their cards astutely. The combination of an Asian market with strong Chinese connections and a system of English law and property rights continues to provide a powerful competitive advantage.

Namibia has also started to successfully exploit the competitive advantage in grape production alongside the Orange River.

However, in order for it to take advantage of export markets, its industry needed to become more competitive.

Second, the insurability of liability requires a sufficiently large and competitive insurance market.

The Norwegian Competition Authority successfully used this procedure to ensure that the market remained competitive.

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

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

Cuba also relies on service differentiation to make its health services competitive in the world market.

This in turn should help SMEs in those countries to become more competitive in the global market.

Small and vulnerable economies must not be abandoned to their fate in the current highly competitive market.

The act of 1994 broadened the scope for cooperatives to adapt to changing market and competitive conditions.

And so today, I'm going to show you four, because I hope to have a competitive advantage at the end of this, still.

We especially emphasize areas of great relevance to Africa's development, because, in those areas, scientists working in Africa will have a competitive advantage.

Given that luxury goods provide individuals with a competitive advantage, higher luxury goods sales could indicate a brighter economic future for a country.

Other criteria besides currency market intervention are used to ascertain whether a currency is deliberately undervalued or, in the words of the International Monetary Fund's Articles of Agreement, manipulated for unfair competitive advantage. One criterion is an inappropriately large trade or current account surplus.

Eli Lilly in, again, the fiercely competitive pharmaceutical world has created a market for solutions for pharmaceutical problems.

Since TML cannot maintain its competitive advantage without having a competitive vendor base, a three pronged approach to beneficial development and upgrading of its suppliers was developed to ensure an efficient process flow within the value chain

In this context, a key policy challenge is to set priorities and focus on niches where they could have a comparative or competitive advantage.

PSD will invest in building strategically important market and competitive knowledge through market research and ensure that internal decision making is more than ever supported by this knowledge.

Client relations and marketing UNOPS services assume critical importance for a multiple service line provider in a competitive market.

The Australia Thailand agreement, for instance, contains a definition of the anti competitive practices to be proscribed these include business conduct or transactions that adversely affect competition, such as anti competitive horizontal arrangements between competitors misuse of market power, including predatory pricing anti competitive vertical arrangements and anti competitive mergers and acquisitions.

451. The branches of industrial production in which women are most frequently employed centre on those in which they have greater competitive advantage than men.

Even in the case of extensions, a preliminary survey of the market may be a good gauge of whether or not a consultant is still competitive and UNICEF is still getting competitive rates.

(a) Enhance and support competitive productive capacities able to produce according to market requirements in terms of quality and quantity

The entry of private ventures into the Earth observation sector might also see a more competitive remote sensing data market.

The quality of such a working relationship might be a competitive advantage for a country in its own right in a globalizing and liberalizing world economy.

Firms in these industries locate strategically, according to where they can secure a competitive advantage vis a vis other firms in specific regional or global markets.

The quality of such a working relationship might be a competitive advantage for a country in its own right in a globalizing and liberalizing world economy.

LDCs such as Malawi could take advantage of market access facilities only if they were able to produce efficiently.

However, taking full advantage of export opportunities continues to be hampered by market access barriers and supply side constraints.

According to the Labour Market Service Act, employers are paid labour market service subsidy through the employment office if the employer employs an unemployed person with a lower competitive ability.

Likewise, if the reform outline s promise of a decisive role for the market ends up raising wages for poor Chinese, domestic demand might increase, but China will lose its main competitive advantage in international markets. This kind of dilemma has contributed to the fall of other developing country dictatorships.

The inability to take greater advantage of new market opportunities in services sectors where developing countries may have a comparative advantage sometimes reflects difficulties of Governments in reconciling trade and social objectives.

The priority of Croatian economic policy was to continue building a stable and strong market economy, competitive on a global scale.

Obtaining advantages for the local production system, thus allowing for the entry of our industry into a highly competitive international market.

It was also noted that producers in a competitive market have more incentive to be efficient in transformation, transmission and distribution.

At first sight, it seems counterintuitive that companies would want to share data and potentially give away competitive advantages. But this presupposes that the possession of such data does indeed imply a competitive advantage, and that a closed operating model is financially sustainable.

Competitive markets would ensure the best allocation of resources according to comparative advantage, securing the export revenues to import capital and intermediate goods to ensure faster growth.

Finished goods are increasingly subject to multi country and multi industry interventions, with individual enterprises in different countries specializing in specific production stages, according to their competitive advantage.

Some technologies are already mature and economically competitive, while others need only minor additional development steps to become ready for the market.

Article 48 The Company shall make detailed analysis on the general situation of the competition pattern in the industry as well as its position, its competitive advantage and disadvantage.