The costs and benefits of incentives and the intensified incentives competition are at the core of the debate.

Trade liberalization also means more competition internationally.

Primarily, it leads to increased competition within such professions and the weakening of the general competitiveness of women in the overall labour market.

Export earnings were mainly derived from a few traditional crops, which were facing strong competition on the world market.

Increasing competition puts pressure on large telecommunications companies, and the prices of some services tend to decrease.

SMEs' ability to reap the potential benefits of globalization depends on how well they are prepared for the new market conditions and the increased competition on the global market.

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.

Item 4 Market access, market entry and competitiveness

At the same time, maintaining fair conditions for competition in the market can maximize benefits to all actors in the distribution services market.

Under the CARICOM treaty, for instance, the goal of the Community Competition Policy is to ensure that the benefits expected from the establishment of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) are not frustrated by anti competitive business conduct.

Any other action likely to reduce or eliminate the benefits of competition in a given market.

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

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

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.

Economic adjustments and the development of market relations in the country have resulted in unemployment and tough competition on the labour market, which is gender biased.

Collusion between private firms is a significant source of foreign anti competitive behaviour increasingly resulting in price and market rigging of cartels across developing countries that stifle competition in the markets of both developed and developing countries.

The increasingly fierce competition seems to make investment in foreign markets more and more of a necessity in order for companies to maintain or strengthen their competitiveness.

The United States has built up its export competitiveness in audiovisual products through control of distribution networks, where its major companies are becoming even more important in convergent markets.

Cities around the world were characterized by increased poverty and exclusion.

Product development based on available agro resources is the key to becoming a potential player in the global market and to facing the increasing competition of imported goods on the domestic market.

Increased competitiveness can result from the growing reputation of a Singaporean firm in both domestic and foreign markets.

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

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.

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

In protecting market efficiency and consumer interests, competition and innovation policies could play a key role.

Enhancing wage flexibility in an environment in which unemployment exceeds 11 will allow firms to cut wages, and lower labor costs will permit them to cut prices in an effort to gain market share. Deregulation that intensifies product market competition will similarly lead to lower prices (that being what competition does).

The poor international environment hit Brazil s economy mainly via foreign trade, aggressive competition in the Brazilian market, and echoes of the negative expectations prevailing in advanced countries.

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

Since international market integration is proceeding rapidly, Africa will have to open up and compete if it is to take advantage of the benefits of that process.

Limit access to a market or free competition among enterprises

One result is that growing attention is being paid at the national level to the need to combine increased contestability with competition policies aimed at preventing market concentration and abuse of dominant positions, and or with policies directly aimed at improving the competitiveness of domestic enterprises.

Issues related to distribution of services With the increasing degree of liberalization of market access in services, issues of competition, especially in the context of distribution, are becoming more pronounced, raising concerns among stakeholders and authorities.

He stressed the importance of creating competitive markets in strengthening the competitiveness of enterprises in host economies, and in ensuring maximum efficiency and consumer welfare.

Increasing global competition and the need to establish a firm global position have encouraged Indian enterprises to invest abroad to acquire brand names and production facilities.

Japan plans to accelerate labor market reforms, strengthen competition, and advance fiscal consolidation to sustain domestic confidence.

The market for Shinkansen technology is growing not only in China, but also in the US (where the state of California wants to build such a system) and in emerging market countries such as Brazil. With demand extremely large, international competition to construct high speed railway networks is becoming intense, as the lobbying for the California contract demonstrates.

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.

Through OFDI, Singapore companies gain better access to competitive markets but equally important is the ability to access sophisticated technological knowledge and managerial skills which are needed in order to be competitive.

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.