Pakistan's cocooned economy grew weak and uncompetitive.
A weak and uncompetitive France, Berlin thinks, is a weak partner and weakens Europe itself.
Men who request family leave are often viewed as weak or uncompetitive and face a greater risk of being demoted or downsized.
Here's what would happen: "Exit, partial or full, would likely be precipitated by disorderly sovereign defaults in the fiscally weak and uncompetitive member states, whose currencies would weaken dramatically and whose banks would fail," Mr. Buiter wrote at the time.
This will pose a formidable challenge for a small country with a relatively weak and uncompetitive agricultural sector.
Data suggest that functional memantine concentration in the human brain is relatively small; together with the intrinsic pharmacology as a weak and uncompetitive inhibitor at the NMDA receptor [ 76], suggesting a small decrease in NMDA functionality. Figure 9A shows the effect of a decrease of 0.5% in the excitatory NMDA receptor and 1% in the inhibitory NMDA receptor on the network performance.
He cited weaker prices and uncompetitive operating margins.
Both examples involved "weak fiscal management, an uncompetitive industrial structure, cutting spending in a weak economy, open capital accounts and an inappropriate currency peg prior to the crisis," Mr. Jen said.
Both examples were marked by "weak fiscal management, an uncompetitive industrial structure, cutting spending in a weak economy, open capital accounts, and an inappropriate currency peg prior to the crisis," he said.
Its problems include a debt crisis, an uncompetitive economy and a weak banking sector, rather than exchange rate instability.
