Such policies, when adopted, have been frequent targets of criticism. Government, it is often said, should not be engaged in picking winners.

Some argue that government is not good at picking winners. Some argue that it makes no difference whether a country produces potato chips or computer chips.

Nothing is more discredited in Anglo American economics than the policy of picking winners. The consensus has been that it inevitably leads to the state backing losers.

First, why should a country concentrate on accumulating trophies at the expense of other desirable goods? And, second, can the formula for picking winners in sports be replicated for competitive success in international trade?

This approach is not about picking winners and losers. It is about targeted microeconomic reforms that reduce or remove barriers to private investment, thereby encouraging the non financial corporate sector to propel European GDP growth.

Horizontal PDPs are relatively uncontroversial, but vertical PDPs can unleash severe criticism, with skeptics claiming that they involve picking winners. But, as the examples given above suggest, the line between horizontal and vertical policies is inevitably fuzzy.

Your winners.

Elections Without Winners

You're just picking and choosing.

The economy is picking up.

The wind is picking up.

Europe s Winners and Losers

Winners don't use drugs.

Why aren't you picking it up?

The boy is picking yellow flowers.

This young man is picking organic vegetables.

Well, she and I went blackberry picking.

The New Global Economy s (Relative) Winners

The kids are picking flowers in the garden.

You're picking on someone smaller than you again!

Indeed, governments propensity to target overly ambitious industries that were misaligned with available resources and skills helps to explain why their attempts to pick winners often resulted in picking losers. By contrast, governments in many successful developing countries have focused on strengthening industries that have done well in countries with comparable factor endowments.

And we're still picking up pieces of the Challenger.

Are you picking me up at 7 tomorrow morning?

Ireland, often praised for its success in picking winners, relied on the technical competence of its renowned Industrial Development Agency to safeguard the integrity and effectiveness of the selection process. Chile, despite possessing reasonably strong institutions, turned to a third party, the Boston Consulting Group, to ensure that the most promising sectors were selected objectively.

Would you mind picking up something on the way back?

They're picking up a giant floppy disk made of cardboard.

Even the business programs have started picking up on this.

There were about a hundred black folks out there picking.

And there are nine other winners who get prizes.

Winners and Losers in the Post 9 11 Era

The military option would have no winners, only losers.

Now is the time when it's ripe ripe for the picking.

In other words, when a government provides money to train a particular kind of engineer, lay out a particular road, or build a particular lab, it is favoring one sector over others, and hence de facto picking winners. The IADB argues that it is better to do this consciously, transparently, and with the appropriate checks and balances.

But, as always, that arbitration has created winners and losers.

Frankie Dettori reaches 3,000 winners with victory at Newmarket on Predilection

Who are the winners and who are the losers in Iran?

Five women, representing five continents, and three Olympic gold medal winners.

Belike we may follow the magicians if they are the winners?

Belike we may follow the magicians if they are the winners?

That we may follow the magicians, if they are the winners.

That we may follow the magicians, if they are the winners.

Everybody understood that when we lose somebody, the winners are not gloating.

so that we may follow the magicians, if they be the winners.

so that we may follow the magicians, if they be the winners.

I've found a way to overcome my habit of always picking fault with others.