99. Adjusting to a globally competitive trade environment.

Equally important is to establish a competitive environment for ISPs.

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.

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.

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

The priority of Croatian economic policy was to continue building a stable and strong market economy, competitive on a global scale.

There is, therefore, strong pressure on our natural resources and subsequent degradation of the environment.

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

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

Future competitive edge comes from the ability to conceive, develop and market products that deliver a very strong functional benefit while reinforcing UNICEF brand equity values.

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.

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.

There are several key areas where the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

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

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.

Is it cost competitive?

Is Finance Too Competitive?

She is overly competitive.

I. Anti competitive practices

(a) Competitive entry process

The competitive bidding process

Avoidance of competitive bidding

The best INGOs develop strong reputations quickly, sustain them indefinitely, and exercise real influence on policymaking. But they operate in a highly competitive environment, and will be on a fast track to losing their way if they come to be seen as no longer meeting real needs, remaining sharply focused, or being uncompromising in maintaining their independence and professionalism.

We need a democratic, competitive environment, initiative at all levels, an active civil society, and real public control. Only under such conditions will difficult problems lend themselves to solution.

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.

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.

Pushed by competitive pressures and pulled by the attractiveness of large markets, FDI mostly bypassed developing countries, rendering insufficient all of their efforts to improve the domestic FDI environment.

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.

With regard to the competitiveness of enterprises, it was now commonplace to hear that a firm must learn to learn in order to adapt itself to the changing competitive environment.

Nevertheless, three key areas are identified below in which the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

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.

It's a pre competitive issue.

I. Anti competitive practices 4

Accordingly, his Government had formulated a Small and Medium Enterprises Development Policy, aimed at creating a strong, diversified, resilient and competitive production system that could cope effectively with the formidable challenges of globalization.

27. The representative of Thailand said that his Government had created a competitive environment by reducing protection of domestic industries, relaxing import controls and bringing down the levels of customs duties.

It also emphasized the need to introduce a wide range of policy, legal, regulatory and institutional reforms which would provide the private sector with a more favourable and competitive business environment.

(b) Undertake legislative and administrative reforms to create a strong enabling environment for women entrepreneurs, which includes a sound macroeconomic framework accountable systems for managing public resources and an attractive investment climate, competitive markets, enforceable contracts, the absence of corruption, regulatory policies that engender public confidence in the market, clear property and inheritance rights and reduced barriers to international trade

As shown in the upper right hand box of figure 3, if the rules of the game , including intellectual property rights, standards and tariffs for access to global networks, are put in place for the GII on a highly cooperative basis, and if competitive forces are strong, then a balanced environment of competition and cooperation among ICT companies will emerge.

Pull factors were a pro business environment and attractive government incentives in host countries, adequate infrastructure, competitive labour costs, availability of natural resources, and availability of strategic assets (technology, R D activities).