Sentence examples for measures of competitiveness from inspiring English sources

Finally, all these measures of competitiveness are highly imperfect — which they are.

If the region is to prosper in competition with emerging countries, it cannot continue to be so generous.Mrs Merkel's charts show various measures of competitiveness, an obsession of hers.

CNBC, which ranks all states according to "60 measures of competitiveness," placed California way down at No. 32 in its 2016 rankings this week.

But the commission said that labor productivity -- one measure of competitiveness -- was declining in the union.

The result is that unit labor costs, one measure of competitiveness between economies, fell in Germany while they were rising in other countries.

The dollar's real trade-weighted value (a measure of competitiveness, adjusted for inflation differentials) against 55 developed and emerging-market currencies is at a 16-year high (see chart).Until last year, the dollar's vigour could be justified by the strength of America's economy, which had attracted large inflows of capital chasing high returns.

To do that, the company applied the Herfindahl index (a measure of competitiveness that looks at the size companies relative to the overall industry) to data from January 2013 to January 2014.

Turner and Van't dack (1993) and Turner and Golub (1997) recommend the use of unit labor cost in manufacturing as a measure of competitiveness.

8In many studies, the difference in the vote shares of the two top parties is used as the measure of competitiveness of the election, but that makes sense only in the case of single-member districts.

The whole rail freight product and service offer needs to be wholly and rigorously transformed if it is to retain a measure of competitiveness and attractiveness to shippers who do after all have modal options to work with.

Anyone who shows a reasonable measure of competitiveness should be permitted to debate.