For parents, the anxiety derives from fears that a bad score could derail their child's future, but also from a social competitiveness for a child to score above the coveted 90-percent level.
This, of course, fosters a competitiveness in vying for the token female role in the boys' club, and makes the environment less friendly to women overall.
The European Central Bank does not publish a competitiveness index for Portugal based on unit labor costs, so a similar one based on overall inflation in the economy is used instead.
Thus in this sense it is a better choice of a competitiveness measure for our system.
On October 29th, at a big meeting with international organisations in Paris, Mr Hollande talked of the need not for an immediate "competitiveness shock", but merely for a competitiveness "pact".
His report called for a "competitiveness shock" that would require politicians to curb the "cult of regulation" he said was choking business in France.
Mr Gallois called for a "competitiveness shock": a cut in social charges worth as much as €30 billion ($38 billion), ideally in one year.
When he thought about it writer realized that the common point in all his talks was a competitiveness, or a heart for the game--their shared and essential self-confidence.
But the government stopped short of adopting the broader changes that an expert panel led by a prominent business executive, Louis Gallois, recommended a day earlier in a report that called for a "competitiveness shock" to the French economy.
PARIS — President François Hollande of France received a challenge on Monday from a report he himself commissioned, as an expert panel called for a "competitiveness shock" to a country falling behind in the global economic race.
But in fact, France is hemorrhaging industrial jobs to such an extent — 750,000 in the past decade — that in a government-commissioned report made public this month, Louis Gallois, a prominent businessman, called for "a competitiveness shock" to stanch the bleeding.
