However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

The United Nations has the competitive edge.

In our globalized world, a country s optimal industrial structure in which all industries are consistent with the country s comparative advantages and are competitive in domestic and international markets is determined by its endowment structure. A well functioning market is required to provide incentives to domestic firms to align their investment choices with the country s comparative advantages.

Item 4 Market access, market entry and competitiveness

Obtaining advantages for the local production system, thus allowing for the entry of our industry into a highly competitive international market.

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The proper application of competition law levelled the playing field for market players and thus increased the number of enterprises that could compete in global markets.

Competitive markets would ensure the best allocation of resources according to comparative advantage, securing the export revenues to import capital and intermediate goods to ensure faster growth.

This may ultimately lead to exclusion of existing competitors from competition in the two liquor markets.

And those three together, I think, give you leverage in the world.

The challenge is thus to convert comparative advantages into competitiveness.

Monitoring of trends and developments in the competition law and policy area at the national and international levels, including the prevalence of anticompetitive practices or concentrated market structures, as well as measures taken by Governments to address these

In the product market, a firm competes with other firms for market shares.

428. The Tunisian economy, which is relatively limited in natural resources, needs to remain open to external markets, and to confront new competitive situations in which quality and price competitiveness are a condition of survival not only in external markets but in the domestic market as well.

Article 48 The Company shall make detailed analysis on the general situation of the competition pattern in the industry as well as its position, its competitive advantage and disadvantage.

The Norwegian Competition Authority successfully used this procedure to ensure that the market remained competitive.

Limit access to a market or free competition among enterprises

500 years ago, it ran into a competitor with a lethal advantage.

Such disturbing developments reveal the extent to which Governments and employers are prepared to suppress workers' rights to win a competitive edge in today's cut throat global markets.

Firms in these industries locate strategically, according to where they can secure a competitive advantage vis a vis other firms in specific regional or global markets.

In order to continue doing so, they need to be competitive in terms of production costs, and the trading environment has to allow competitive advantages to be decisive.

Another source of competitive advantages relates to better managerial and marketing expertise.

At the same time, SMEs face increased competition in both domestic and international markets.

To begin with, as international firms begin to operate in the world economy as if it were a single market and production space, the issue of competitive markets is now being posed in terms of the quot contestability quot of markets, i.e. not only actual trade competition in goods and services, but also potential competition resulting from the establishment of foreign firms through direct investment.

Costs of implementation of national competition policy could be minimized by recognizing that, in small markets, concentration might not be as important as ensuring the contestability of markets.

As a result, competitiveness in international markets would be reduced.

In addition, growing competition in the distribution market can be expected to produce a decline in prices.

Foster the competitiveness of Swiss equipment suppliers on the world market.

Rules governing competition in domestic or international markets address this problem.

Market structure and competition (legislative recommendation 1 and paras. 1 13)

They have proved that they can be competitive in a market economy.

The priority of Croatian economic policy was to continue building a stable and strong market economy, competitive on a global scale.

At first sight, it seems counterintuitive that companies would want to share data and potentially give away competitive advantages. But this presupposes that the possession of such data does indeed imply a competitive advantage, and that a closed operating model is financially sustainable.

Because in Africa today, we are competing globally for capital.

Assist small island developing States in enhancing their competitiveness in international markets.

Free societies are most valuable as marketplaces where free ideas compete.

LDCs' comparative advantage is in exports of labour intensive services.

A century ago, the economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter argued that the central virtue of a market economy was its capacity to innovate. He contended that economists traditional focus on competitive markets was misplaced what mattered was competition for the market, not competition in the market.

What is particularly lacking in terms of raising domestic competition and increasing the competitiveness of economies in transition is a sufficient number of privately owned medium sized enterprises capable of growing and competing not only in domestic markets but also in foreign markets.

The issue is to what extent the market should be competitive in the traditional sense of the word, i.e. marked by the absence of regulatory barriers to entry and the existence of small production units, etc.

It was observed that success in domestic markets was often a prerequisite for competitiveness in regional and, eventually, international markets.

By opening up markets to competition, they also encourage the operation of market based incentives.

The Parties agree that it is in their common interest to secure the efficient operation of their markets by enforcing their respective competition laws in order to protect their markets from anticompetitive practices.

Trade liberalization also means more competition internationally.

It was necessary to address anti competitive tendencies emanating from both domestic and external markets.