Japan is highly competitive in high technology industries.

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

The Government is Hong Kong's largest single employer and recruitment is highly competitive.

(ii) Establishment of a competitive, environmentally friendly export sector

One was highly efficient, paying competitive prices to farmers and organizing research in agronomy the other exceeded its authority and undermined the performance of the country apos s coffee producing sector.

As the main component of the Central African GDP (32.2 per cent in 2002), the food crop sector, which is highly diversified, is the country's main centre of economic growth and potentially its most competitive sector, provided effective production, transformation and export measures are implemented.

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

Innovation and invention were clearly the key to ensuring a rapid pace of industrialization in a highly competitive global arena.

That cooperation would assist improved policy setting for the manufacturing sector, and identification of competitive subsectors.

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

There were no nationally recognized standards or awards to steer the training to suit the demands of a highly competitive economy.

24. Between 1992 and 1997, the total value of imported pesticides had amounted to more than 82 million in highly competitive conditions.

It was also helping the private sector to promote industrial development and make developing countries more competitive.

There is a proliferation of actors in the sector, and the industry is competitive on a regional basis.

Expatriate service resulted in experience that was considered highly desirable by private and public sector employers.

The underlying problem in those cases is often that firms specialize in highly competitive markets, frequently in activities with low levels of added value.

Without industrialization, developing countries would not be able to achieve social justice and meet the challenges of an open and highly competitive world economy.

Moreover, government private sector contacts are often highly personalized or opaque, which can lead to undesirable results.

Such ability is also influenced by the sector in which a firm operates the more innovative and competitive the sector is, the easier it is for the firm to adapt and to remain competitive, for example by exploiting externalities or knowledge spillovers through inter firm cooperation.

Sri Lanka, which had relied on export crops in the past, was now seeking to develop a competitive manufacturing sector.

Good governance, a vibrant civil society, functioning markets, and a competitive entrepreneurial private sector are essential ingredients of this process.

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

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The health sector in almost all countries, including the most highly developed, is in the process of restructuring.

Highly talented. Highly.

The highly competitive global economic environment, with an increased emphasis on labour intensive export oriented production including the area of services, has intensified efforts to utilize least cost labour.

The world economic system is highly competitive and market based, and Africa has become largely marginalized in recent years in attracting significant inflows of long term foreign direct investment.

In the field of telecommunications satellites, French industry is having to face up to rapid progress in technologies and the needs of the market within a highly competitive environment.

43. The last two waves of migration have encountered conditions in the receiving areas that make permanent resettlement practically impossible, as virtually all of them have no other solution than to eke out a living in the informal sector, where they are compelled to perform poorly paid work in a highly competitive market.

Assisting the artisanal and small scale gold mining sector to minimize the discharge of highly poisonous mercury used in gold extraction

An assessment of these impacts would require empirical work at a highly disaggregated level (country specific and product or sector specific).

The EU s most competitive economies are the most innovative and energy efficient, with the most highly educated workforces. Indeed, for Europe, cheap is not the answer quality and innovation are.

The embargo has had highly deleterious effects on the agricultural sector, in particular on crop protection, animal resources and the irrigation system.

The customs sector affects the ability of the exporter to go to a country and to be competitive in that country, and an inefficient or corrupt customs sector would be considered a major barrier to trading.

One may wonder whether today s highly competitive, funding starved scientific atmosphere, in which publications and citations have become a primary criterion for success, can accommodate such mistakes. The simple answer is yes.

A broad sector base was being established and efforts were being made to ensure the development of competitive products that could gain access to external markets.

As regards prohibited agreements, the Commission issued opinion No. 002 CTX of 27 March 1996 concerning anti competitive practices in the inter urban passenger transport sector.

With regard to human resources reform, UNDP will fine tune its policies and implementation mechanisms to ensure that staff skills and competencies remain highly competitive in the market for advisory and development services.

Sensational stories are inevitably given first priority in the highly competitive culture of today s media. In this environment, issues concerning conflicts and natural disasters leading to heavy loss of life invariably gain prominence.

By 2002, the financial sector accounted for a 62 per cent share, a reflection of Singapore's competitive role as an international financial centre in the global economy.

It influences competitive strategies of operators in the tourism sector and enables the product supplier to link more directly with customer sources, therefore reducing market transaction costs.

National competitive examinations

Taken together, the reports offered insight into recent efforts to strengthen the ability of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to staff peacekeeping operations through competitive, fair and transparent processes that yielded highly qualified personnel.

Well, in this highly competitive world... when a man has no profession, there isn't much choice... so I began looking for people who had more money than they needed... including some they'd barely miss.

That is most evident in justice, legal and security matters, as well as in the finance and monetary sector, where highly specialized expertise is required.

Despite Singapore's competitive strength in manufacturing, the sector accounted for only 20 per cent of OFDI in 1990, and declined to 8.5 per cent in 2002 (table 2).