The phrase "poor competitiveness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to describe a situation where someone or something performs poorly in comparison to their peers. For example, "Our team had poor competitiveness this year in the tournament, finishing last in our division."
Once exposed, Federer lost hope, and in a rare instance of poor competitiveness, he appeared weak and vulnerable by the end of the match.
Intrinsic weaknesses of "socially owned" enterprises were exposed, including featherbedding, limited professional skills, poor competitiveness, undercapitalization, outmoded production methods, and resistance to innovation.
In fact, far from wreaking havoc, those methods helped stabilise an economy plagued by hyperinflation and poor competitiveness, paving the way for Lula's social policies.
A devaluation would spare them the grinding wage deflation needed to price the unemployed back into work (though it would not address the economic weaknesses that lie behind poor competitiveness).
The country has too few big companies, too much regulation, poor competitiveness, and not enough investment in new technology.Francesco Giavazzi, a professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan, says that "the question [of Italy's growth potential] has been in the background for the last 30 years".
However, as the world economy slowed after the crisis in South-East Asia, so did FDI flows to developing countries, falling by 4%.The euro slid close to its lowest-ever level against the dollar after Romano Prodi, European Commission president-in-waiting, said that Italy's poor competitiveness might make it unable to stay in Europe's single currency.
Poor wage competitiveness makes it harder for them to grow quickly and to generate tax revenue.
This group, consisting of Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece, is "united by weak public finances, poor export competitiveness and big trade deficits".
A slightly smaller fraction is accounted for by its southern and western "periphery"—Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece a group united by weak public finances, poor export competitiveness and big trade deficits.
In neither report are cyber attacks or espionage identified as prime causes of poor economic competitiveness.
"Given poor product competitiveness versus Intel, [the] acquisition of ATI and significant new capacity in 2007, we believe margins improvement will be difficult".
