The two leaders, from either side of the sectarian divide, write: "It is critical to our economy that our business, both indigenous and foreign direct investment companies, retain their competitiveness and do not incur additional costs.
To retain its competitiveness, Bangladesh would have to increase its attractiveness in other ways, for example, by increasing productivity and specialised labour skills, regaining buyers' trust, and ensuring workers' welfare.
But if we are faced with more taxes from Syriza, the international bankers who fund me will force me to change the flag of my vessels, to reduce costs and retain my competitiveness.
Mr. Motsepe said the government had a difficult line to walk: "The challenge -- and I've got confidence in the way it's being done -- is that while you introduce these changes, these social changes, that you maintain security of tenure, you maintain respect for property rights and you retain the competitiveness of the South African mining industry".
Our results indicate that supply chain adaptation may indeed be crucial for a firm to retain its competitiveness.
In order to preserve existing investments and to retain the competitiveness of the production plant it continuously has to be developed and improved further.
Manufacturing companies are operating in a severely competitive global market, which renders an urgent need for them to explore new methods to enhance the performance of their production systems in order to retain their competitiveness.
Investigation of the factors that influence innovation performance has been a crucial academic and managerial concern since innovation has become essential for firms to retain their competitiveness and ensure long-term survival in dynamic global markets (Molina-Castillo and Munuera-Aleman 2009; Anderson et al. 2014).
In order to retain its competitiveness, Bangladesh will have to increase its attractiveness in other ways for example, increasing labor productivity, increasing specialized labor skills, regain the trust of buying companies, give assurance that no unfavourable situations will be created in future, and to ensure the complete welfare of the workers, and so on.
Initial agreements may also trigger a domino-effect as other countries initiate further PTAs to retain trade competitiveness [ 119].
