For the team it is a tremendous thing to have that competitiveness – it makes us strong.
The risk is also that poor corporate governance will allow firms to sit on their piles of profits indefinitely rather than putting the cash to work in the economy.The most worrying explanation of all is that Japanese products appear to have lost competitiveness, claiming an ever-dwindling share of rich-country exports since 1986.
"You can't allow 15,000 school boards to home bake their own little standards subject to their own political pressures and think we are going to have international competitiveness.
In this manuscript, a simplified approach to define the conditions at which PSHPP has competitiveness over SCGT power plants.
France, too, has competitiveness problems, and is unable to meet its commitments under the European Union's fiscal compact.
General Atlantic, which has been in Brazil for 10 years, appears to be making a bet on an expanding financial services sector and middle class even as the country's growth continues to weaken and it continues to have difficulties improving competitiveness.
For those old enough to have lived through the competitiveness debate of 20 years ago, Edward Luce's new book, "Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent," will seem awfully familiar.
Last Friday we launched, 'Competitiveness Dialogue', and we're planning to have another workshop on competitiveness in SADC and ECOWAS before next year's World Economic Forum on Africa.
The observed differences in germination between treatments were relatively small, but even small differences in germination are likely to have significant effects on competitiveness and thus on fitness.
These findings are consistent with the fact that the prevalence of male fish with moderate to severely feminized gonads (that have been shown to have substantially reduced reproductive competitiveness in controlled breeding studies) is generally less than 10% in English rivers [ 3, 25, 26, 46].
