For example, China s labor intensive export sectors are losing their competitive edge.

The real discussions are pushed to another platform the Internet. Medvedev legitimizes this claim by his appearance on Livejournal.

Violence, displacement, human rights abuses, and poverty had clearly taken a huge toll.

Competitive pressure from such investment, like import competition, will improve productivity.

It turned out that there was enormous excess capacity, and import substitution soon began, even in the midst of financial turmoil.

Despite its advantage, Virginia is facing competitive pressure from its neighbor to the south.

Similarly, many company bosses know that pretending that climate problems do not exist is bad for shareholders, because reality will one day strike.

They know that investing today in clean technologies can give them a long term competitive advantage.

Germany s competitive advantage has less to do with chicanery than with how its firms are structured and the culture in which they operate.

The book received the James A. Hamilton award of the American College of Healthcare Executives in 2007 for book of the year.

How can an agency's procedures be reformed? Where are the competitive pressures for innovative thinking in government?

The fact is that a weaker dollar resulting from lower interest rates gives the US a slight competitive advantage in trade.

But indulging the old political reflex of manipulating the exchange rate to create a competitive advantage will yield a short term fix at best.

Back then, Japan bashing came to mean the threat of US trade sanctions unless Japan softened competitive pressure on American industries.

China s currency policy gives it a competitive advantage relative to other countries, allowing it to displace their exports to the US.

Sebagai contoh, pembuat kebijakan harus meredakan tekanan kompetitif antara pangan dan bahan bakar dengan merumuskan rencana untuk mengatasi ketidakstabilan harga pangan.

The combination of an Asian market with strong Chinese connections and a system of English law and property rights continues to provide a powerful competitive advantage.

Now that it has achieved the minimum efficient scale, new entrants cannot easily use competitive pressure to squeeze Uber s margins.

While Indians have traditionally been wary of buying online, owing to their distrust of digital security, in recent years the urban middle class has become increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to purchase airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms, and order books.

Meanwhile, Germany benefited from the euro crisis, which depressed the exchange rate and boosted its competitiveness further.

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

Now that the US is producing massive amounts of low price natural gas and ethane, Saudi Arabia's competitive advantage and market share is beginning to deteriorate.

IBM's PS 2 was designed to remain software compatible with their PC AT XT line of computers upon which the large PC clone market was built, but the hardware was quite different.

Whether it does will depend to a large degree on how the West responds now, because what is at stake is not just the ousting of tyrants, but also the profound transformation and modernization of entire societies and economies.

Moreover, exclusive dealing can increase competition by allowing two platforms to occupy distinct market niches, with the alternative being that one drives out the other.

Corporate leaders who embrace this new reality, view it as an opportunity, and resist the inclination to manage or avoid issues will have a competitive advantage.

In another episode, members of the Mexican Federal Police are seen assaulting a drug lord in his hacienda, with the implication that they are only doing the bidding of a rival dealer.

It is no surprise that the big banks succeeded in stopping some essential reforms what was a surprise was a provision in the US Senate s bill that banned government insured entities from underwriting risky derivatives. Such government insured underwriting distorts the market, giving big banks a competitive advantage, not necessarily because they are more efficient, but because they are too big to fail.

Such government insured underwriting distorts the market, giving big banks a competitive advantage, not necessarily because they are more efficient, but because they are too big to fail.

The civil war continued for another six years, followed by a bumpy political aftermath Syrian intervention and expulsion (two decades later), as the Lebanese defined their own fate with the US exercising only background influence.

But competitive pressures and the long gestation period of fixed capital outlays multiply optimism, leading to more investment being undertaken than is actually profitable.

Sometimes, when you are coming back from an injury, you have a vulnerable period, a time when you need to strengthen your body and gain competition, said Wenger.

Societies that discover how to use the education and talent of half their populations, while allowing women and their partners to invest in their families, will have a competitive edge in the global knowledge innovation economy.

For the US, displacing Russia as India s leading arms supplier was a major diplomatic triumph, akin to Egypt s decision during the Cold War to shift its allegiance and its arms supplier from the Soviet Union to America.

Would New York, Frankfurt, or even Paris receive a competitive boost as international bankers, alarmed at the prospect of time behind bars if their derivative trades blow up again, flee the City?

Let us fix and strengthen that framework, while bearing in mind that a simple mandate to maximize competitive pressure in banking is no more possible, or desirable, than one that would aim at eliminating instability completely.

Such over investment produces an inevitable collapse.