Indeed, greater competitive pressure may increase the fragility of banks balance sheets and make investors more prone to panics.

These activities are in particular those that are capable of withstanding competitive pressures for efficiency gains and surviving the new industrial and trade realities.

Iraq s elections have turned up the pressure even more.

The challenge is that the rise of online shopping will increase competitive pressure, regardless of whether big foreign retailers enter the market.

Also, attaining competitiveness will require an increase in efficiency in the whole supply chain management.

There is a trade off between competition and stability. Indeed, greater competitive pressure may increase the fragility of banks balance sheets and make investors more prone to panics.

Harnessed effectively, advanced agricultural biotechnology can contribute to solving some of the most common problems faced by developing countries through

More discontent is spreading rapidly about the ever increasing population caused by federal immigration pressures.

Structural reforms are always useful, but increasing productivity takes a long time and does not always translate into higher competitiveness.

With the PBOC unable to sterilize the inflows, upward pressure on the renminbi s exchange rate would threaten competitiveness.

As developing country firms become more competitive through OFDI, they can contribute to the competitiveness of their home countries by increasing national productive capacity and productivity.

Most delegations also agreed on the role that transnational service corporations and service foreign direct investment could play in those respects that is, as a source of efficiency through the increase of competitive pressures and availability through the supply of quality services.

This only increases financial pressure on France, Italy, and the other members.

The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness. But where will increased competitiveness come from?

Muted wage growth increases competitiveness, and underutilized labor and capital are redeployed.

f) Assist women entrepreneurs to increase their competitiveness through the use of ICT

Although a weaker euro would not increase their competitiveness relative to Germany and other eurozone countries, it would improve their competitiveness relative to all non eurozone countries.

Global competitiveness.

The benefits of internationalization for increasing enterprise competitiveness are demonstrated by the evidence in UNCTAD's country case studies.

During the Meeting, experts discussed different patterns of SMEs' internationalization that help increase export competitiveness.

If the increase were considered permanent, however, it would make sense to increase spending or reduce tax pressure.

The US pivot to Asia further increases the pressure on Europe to deal with its own neighborhood. Although the EU s foreign policy toward Russia has become more effective, tensions have, if anything, grown and may continue to do so.

Furthermore, the Turkish military can increase the pressure on Iraqi Kurds with far less drastic measures.

The challenge of effectiveness and efficiency has been brought into sharper focus through the pressures created by the increased number, scope and complexity of operations.

What about inflation targeting? Here, too, the record since 1980 has been patchy, despite the huge deflationary pressure exerted by low wage competition from Asia.

The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness.

Second, Germany s experience with this kind of agency shows that it is impossible to sell off large parts of an economy simultaneously.

Most countries invest public resources in assets that have the effect of increasing their human capital and technological base, and thus their competitiveness.

That means raising productivity and strengthening competitiveness and, equally important, asserting Europe s place in the world.

It is interesting to examine the extent to which such firms have used the interconnected nature of the globalizing economy to increase their internationalization and competitiveness.

In recent years, the great majority have carried out economic reforms aimed at increasing productive efficiency and competitiveness, and at expanding the role of the private sector.

More generally, the rapid expansion of credit risks increasing inflationary pressure and fueling the formation of asset bubbles.

Therefore, we strongly denounce the adoption of a resolution as an insidious political offensive aimed at increasing international pressure against us.

National competitive examinations

Extent of competitive bidding

(c) Economic pressures

This in turn should help SMEs in those countries to become more competitive in the global market.

The increasingly fierce competition seems to make investment in foreign markets more and more of a necessity in order for companies to maintain or strengthen their competitiveness.

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

UNIDO integrated programmes in the region will progressively contribute towards building the productivity and capacity of these sectors to accelerate their competitiveness.

OFDI had contributed to increasing familiarity and experience with international business, which enhance firm specific assets, including improving the reputation and brand image of Singaporean enterprises. Such internationalisation has also helped strengthen managerial and marketing expertise and market access.

She also underlined the need to increase the productivity and competitiveness of these countries and, to that end, to intensify efforts towards aid and market access.

Rising productivity also improves competitiveness, through lower prices for example, without resorting to cutting jobs or wages.

The Council supports the efforts to form integrated brigades of the Congolese army in order to increase the military pressure on FDLR.

The Council supports the efforts to form integrated brigades of the Congolese army in order to increase the military pressure on FDLR.