The Carbon Trust reckons that the ETS can bring about deeper cutbacks in its next phase, after 2012, without damaging competitiveness.Still, while Europe has a carbon price and the rest of the world does not, there is a cost.
In an interview, Susanne Hounsell, one of the authors of the report, said Germany was "at a crossroads" in determining how to achieve its green objectives without damaging competitiveness and while phasing out all nuclear power production by 2022.
World Rugby boss Brett Gosper has said a future World Cup could enlarge the number of teams taking part without losing competitiveness.
Industry and government of Korea had in time recognized the significance and impact that universities could have in the progress of the economy and understood that without augmenting competitiveness of universities, then national competitiveness could not be enhanced.
The main question facing policymakers around the world is: How can wage growth best be promoted without sacrificing competitiveness?
On the other hand, it's clear that too much competitiveness without restraint can exhaust ideas and people, pushing less competitive people to the edge, and create a dog-eat-dog environment which eventually results in a toxic work environment.
I have inherited my father's competitiveness, without a doubt.
The Germans will also have to accept higher inflation to allow others to regain competitiveness without being pushed into deflation.
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is experiencing an acute version of a familiar governance challenge: how to be a caring state without undermining economic competitiveness.
Second, deficit countries would be able to reestablish their international competitiveness without going through the painful deflationary process required by the old gold standard and without facing the political embarrassment of abandoning an established par value.
