UNIDIR's increasingly competitive programme brings young researchers from all over the world to work at UNIDIR for short periods.

It may also be necessary to develop new competitive technologies and innovative applications, especially at the level of increasingly export oriented enterprises.

Similarly, competition authorities are increasingly called upon to assess the potential anti competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions, that have either a domestic or an international dimension.

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.

For reform laggards like France, Italy, and Portugal, currency union with an increasingly competitive Germany is forcing an unwelcome choice between revving up their own reforms and permanent stagnation.

The process of globalization had largely affected the business environment for SMEs, and it was becoming increasingly important for firms to become internationally competitive, if they were to survive.

In the past, agricultural development has prioritized large scale, capitalized forms of agriculture, neglecting smallholders who feed local communities. And governments have failed to protect agricultural workers from exploitation in an increasingly competitive environment.

As investors learn more about Africa, they will increasingly see what it has to offer. Indeed, the cost of labor in Africa is competitive enough that Ethiopia could attract companies from countries as poor as Bangladesh.

As tariff barriers have come down, the unfair fair trade laws are increasingly being used as America's favored protectionist tool. Treating foreign and domestic firms the same with respect to competitive practices would stop these abuses.

National competitive examinations

Collusion between private firms is a significant source of foreign anti competitive behaviour increasingly resulting in price and market rigging of cartels across developing countries that stifle competition in the markets of both developed and developing countries.

Is it cost competitive?

Is Finance Too Competitive?

She is overly competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices

(a) Competitive entry process

Moreover, with education increasingly becoming a lifelong pursuit, businesses must rethink their role in providing for a competitive workforce. Some companies have already grasped this and are investing in their employees continuous learning, re skilling, and up skilling.

It's a pre competitive issue.

I. Anti competitive practices 4

As renewable energy becomes increasingly cost competitive with fossil fuels and energy consumption becomes more efficient, China will become better able to reduce emissions without undermining economic growth. According to a recent study by the Tsinghua MIT China Energy amp

Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced. Competitive devaluations, even if they are not policymakers stated objectives, are becoming increasingly tempting though they will not solve the aggregate demand problem.

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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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.

Compounding the problem, the diversity in banks capital ratios also indicates a dramatic distortion of the international playing field, as increasingly competitive conditions in financial markets have led to national discretion in applying the rules. Meanwhile, the opacity of capital indicators has made market discipline impossible to impose.

It has numerous valuable assets, but it cannot postpone long overdue reforms, or else it will become increasingly irrelevant in a fiercely competitive global economy. This is the economic challenge that President François Hollande, Prime Minister Jean Marc Ayrault, and all of us in the French government must confront.

is increasingly prominent.

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.

Successful places tend to move from a few technologically simple industries that are competitive enough to export their products to a greater number of industries that are increasingly complex. For example, in 1963, 97 of Thailand s export basket was composed of agricultural and mineral products such as rice, rubber, tin, and jute.