A cluster development strategy can help SMEs to overcome those obstacles and provide them with competitive advantages unattainable by individual enterprises.

The latter Plan aimed to achieve the ambitious Lisbon Strategy targets to make the European area competitive in terms of the economy, human resources and investment in human capital, and specifically to make it the most competitive area in the world by 2010 in economic development and social cohesion.

National competitive examinations

With few options for fighting deflation, countries have resorted to competitive devaluations. But this is not an effective strategy for capturing a larger share of tradable global demand if everyone is doing it.

Is it cost competitive?

Is Finance Too Competitive?

She is overly competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices

(a) Competitive entry process

LJUBLJANA At the Spring European Council meeting on March 13 14, EU member states leaders will launch the second cycle of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs, a strategy launched in 2000 with the aim of making the EU the most competitive knowledge based economy in the world. The EU s current economic upturn suggests that the strategy is working, particularly after its renewal in 2005.

It's a pre competitive issue.

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Programme Component D.1 Competitive Manufacturing

PM That's Dimitri at his most competitive.

It's not just competitive, it's also caring.

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The International Monetary Fund was founded, in part, to prevent precisely this type of beggar thy neighbor economic strategy, which resulted in competitive devaluations during the 1930s. Unfortunately, the IMF in recent years has proved unable or unwilling to do so.

Some of the cases reviewed demonstrate that anti competitive practices such as collusion and abuse of dominance occur in a variety of sectors and that in many instances anti competitive practices involve a mixture of vertical and horizontal anti competitive practices.

Japan is highly competitive in high technology industries.

Zambia Anti competitive restrictions on exports of cement

National competitive examination and General Service to Professional examination

Sustainability has got to be a pre competitive issue.

Zambia Anti competitive restrictions on exports of cement .6

Their development will be conducted on a competitive basis.

So, there is a huge competitive argument about sustaining the capacity for open source and consumer driven innovation, because it's one of the greatest competitive levers against monopoly.

In order to continue doing so, they need to be competitive in terms of production costs, and the trading environment has to allow competitive advantages to be decisive.

Sometimes hockey players get so competitive that fights break out.

has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive.

Having a competitive mentality can give rise to negative emotions.

In addition, they suffer from many structural and competitive disadvantages.

Equally important is to establish a competitive environment for ISPs.

Table 5. Impact of OFDI on the competitive advantages of SINTNCs

OHRM organized in May 2001 a specialized competitive human rights examination.

Through OFDI, Singapore companies gain better access to competitive markets but equally important is the ability to access sophisticated technological knowledge and managerial skills which are needed in order to be competitive.

Fast food. With the fast food industry you know, it's very competitive.

So far as practicable, selection shall be made on a competitive basis.

Another source of competitive advantages relates to better managerial and marketing expertise.

Outputs Programmatic activities will be carried out in line with the Organization's corporate strategy of enhancing productivity for social advance through the mobilization and transfer of knowledge, skills and technology to enable developing countries and economies in transition to generate employment, develop a competitive economy and ensure environmental sustainability.

In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

affirming the urgent need to improve the competitive status of sustainably managed forests,

University education was highly competitive because of the limited places available at universities.

All successful candidates in a national competitive recruitment examination also have geographic status.

The collective response, adopted in 2000, has been the Lisbon Strategy, which aims at making the EU the most dynamic and competitive knowledge based economy in the world by 2010. More realistically, it is designed to provide governments with the incentive to undertake the reforms that stimulate economic growth and productivity.

Other elements of a pro poor trade policy include creating dynamic synergies between trade and industrial policy, a gradual and sequenced approach towards economic liberalization and a two track trade strategy with competitive export oriented industries operating on laissez faire principles, functioning side by side with protected infant or strategic industries.

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