"raise competitiveness" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of making a situation or person more competitive than they used to be, for example: "The government's new initiative aims to raise competitiveness among the nation's businesses."
Second, there is a need to raise competitiveness.
The whole piece then gallops off into a full-scale assault on companies for trying to raise competitiveness in the workforce.
While the rate is a "terrific achievement," the economy still has "soft patches," and needs changes to raise competitiveness, Mr. Swan said.
"Those who stayed have had to restructure to diminish costs and raise competitiveness," said Jorge Carrillo, a researcher at the College of the Northern Border in Tijuana.
Instead of having huge devaluations like those suffered in Mexico under Mr. Zedillo, in Indonesia under Mr. Suharto or in Poland under Mr. Walesa, Europe's troubled nations need to raise competitiveness by reducing local costs.
Moscovici said that "I know that we have problems", citing the need to create more jobs, fight unemployment, raise competitiveness and cut the public debt (which France's own state auditor fears is dangerously high at over 93% of GDP).
If nothing else, this raises competitiveness issues for inward investment.
MPs troubled by the cost of living and those concerned with the challenge of raising competitiveness are manageable.
This is a relatively low score for a program that is advertised as a methodology for raising competitiveness.
Falling prices raise the competitiveness of the deficit economy, and eventually the deficit closes and the gold outflows stop.
"Promote interest rate liberalization, force financial institutions to raise their competitiveness and capacity for innovation, and lay the foundation for convertibility of the renminbi capital account," it says.
