Zambia was struggling to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) while striving to build the capacities necessary for dealing with an increasingly competitive economic development environment.

99. Adjusting to a globally competitive trade environment.

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.

Equally important is to establish a competitive environment for ISPs.

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.

A further challenge consists in developing a competitive environment on the supply side.

We basically tried to create the most competitive environment for our lab as possible.

Large firms face an increasingly fluid economic, technological, and political environment owing to more global and competitive markets, to the greater potential of technological change to alter firms business environment, and to governments growing influence over what makes business sense. In this fluid environment, large companies must be cautious before making large, long term commitments.

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

A competitive environment with well regulated markets was the most effective institution to allocate resources efficiently.

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.

The legislative environment is becoming increasingly supportive of volunteering and the contribution that volunteering makes to individuals and societies is increasingly recognized.

With investment policy regimes becoming increasingly open and similar, the trend towards investment promotion is likely to increase, as many countries find that they need to undertake further promotional efforts to attract the desired level of inflows, and of a kind consonant with their development objectives, in the increasingly competitive environment for international investment world wide.

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

This will require the least developed countries to create an enabling environment for ICT related investment and competitive services.

In this regard, the Advisory Committee maintains that it is of paramount importance that the regional commissions strive to remain attractive partners for donors in an increasingly competitive environment, ensuring that their work and areas of expertise do not duplicate or overlap those of others.

The increasingly dynamic environment in which UNDP operates resulted in fluctuations within each major expenditure category.

Maintaining stability in the increasingly fragile security environment has remained a major challenge for the Mission.

As a result, Palestinian industry had become increasingly competitive, the Palestinian Standards Institution had improved its results, and industrial modernization programmes had been introduced.

The review and recommendations reflect a market environment that has become increasingly complex over the past decade.

These are magnified in a globalized, liberalized and competitive international economic environment and with the increasing incidence of more devastating natural disasters.

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.

Within this increasingly ambiguous and interdependent environment, lives progress along many planes biological, psychological, societal, political, cultural and spiritual.

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

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.

As companies increasingly enter bottom of the pyramid markets, concerns rightfully arise regarding the protection of consumers and the environment.

The European Community feasibility study requirements became increasingly dominant in the Bosnia and Herzegovina political environment during the reporting period.

However, the ad hoc arrangements for observing selected General Assembly sessions, particularly on environment and development, have become increasingly unworkable.

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.

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.

The result was an increasingly constrained environment for individuals fleeing persecution and violence, and for UNHCR seeking to secure their international protection.

The initiative resulted in an increasingly safer information technology operations environment and the more assumed availability of e mail and network services.

The formidable challenge of developing countries is to create sustainable sources of livelihoods in an internationally competitive environment and thereby contribute to the achievement of the MDGs.

National competitive examinations

A number of reasons to explain this have been advanced, including the overall decline of levels of official development assistance budgetary pressures on national budgets of key donor countries so called donor fatigue an increasingly competitive environment and the imposition of greater control over the end use of funds through more frequent recourse to earmarked funding.

38. On balance, the trading environment has become increasingly hospitable for developed and developing countries alike in the wake of the Uruguay Round.

Provide business opportunities (vendor rationalization by eliminating non competitive firms and fostering competitive ones)

The pathfinding initiatives involved have to survive and succeed in bureaucratic environments not used to the business like, dynamic, speedy and competitive demands of the modern commercial environment.

The Government is allocating 94,000 to the Department of Telecommunications to engage a consultant to ensure that the demands of a competitive environment are actively addressed following deregulation.

The introduction of a competitive environment for access to the factors of production increases social differentiation in the countryside and polarizes agriculture into two types competitive modern faming systems oriented solely towards the market, and family subsistence farming, which embraces most of the workers on the land.

The global environment, where processing steps are increasingly divided between different locations, has altered the way Governments and the enterprise sector undertake diversification measures.

Is it cost competitive?

Is Finance Too Competitive?

She is overly competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices