Labour market situation

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

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

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.

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.

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

(i) General situation of the labour market and employment

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.

Abuse of a situation arising from a dominant or monopolistic position in a market or market segment

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.

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.

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.

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

Capital Market Commission's Committee on Corporate Governance in Greece (1999). Principles on Corporate Governance in Greece Recommendations for Its Competitive Transformation (Mertzanis Report).

In the field of telecommunication satellites, French industry has to cope with rapidly developing technologies and market requirements in a very competitive environment.

Yet regulators persist in trying to inject themselves into these fields, with antitrust authorities claiming that they are ripe with anti competitive practices and exercises of undue market power by the most successful market participants.

This fact, in itself, cannot be taken as definitive evidence of the presence of anti competitive practices in the market for international Internet connectivity.

However, some less competitive exporters are facing adjustment issues consequent to quota elimination and require assistance to improve their market access and supply capacity.

Even so, the financial situation of families compels minors to enter the labour market.

Even in the case of other developing markets, it is important that vigilance be exercised so that market structures do no evolve in a direction in which powerful market players can engage in anti competitive behaviour.

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.

Yet, negotiations under agriculture and non agricultural market access have proved controversial owing to differing interests between preference dependent countries and other competitive exporting countries.

An assessment mission undertaken in Jordan in November 2004 showed that the EMPRETEC Programme can provide a competitive edge to SMEs in the global market.

However, anti competitive regulations and monopolistic market structures persisted in many countries, as well as structural barriers that hindered enterprises apos free access to markets.

A century ago, the economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter argued that the central virtue of a market economy was its capacity to innovate. He contended that economists traditional focus on competitive markets was misplaced what mattered was competition for the market, not competition in the market.

And therefore you had a situation where every state had its own market for products.

91. The situation of women in the labour market is slightly more favourable at present.

Future competitive edge comes from the ability to conceive, develop and market products that deliver a very strong functional benefit while reinforcing UNICEF brand equity values.

By comparison, in market economies, competition policies appeared to be the most efficient way of preventing the welfare losses that occured in an imperfectly competitive environment.

An analysis of the horizontal implications revealed that the transaction raised no serious competition concerns as the market for the provision of these services was highly competitive and the merged entity would not enjoy a large market share.

13. Turning to agenda item 4, he expressed the Group s concern regarding the persistence of market access barriers such as tariff peaks and escalation, and of non tariff barriers, which jeopardized the market access of increasingly competitive developing countries.

Much attention is already being given to the first step, that is, to provide the assurance of supply of nuclear fuel and technology at competitive market prices.

Market seeking OFDI is driven by the competitive impulse to access new markets, distribution networks and marketing channels in order to secure greater influence over supply chains.

As a result, the best candidates are not offered competitive remuneration commensurate to their market value and thus are often not available for electoral missions and projects.

Indeed, there is little evidence of serious anti competitive practices that would warrant ex ante market regulation, at least not in the main markets for interconnection services.