In other words, the relationship between internationalization and firm competitiveness is two way in the sense that the former increases the latter and the latter leads to the former.

Competition in that arena had adhered to generally accepted international electoral standards.

Substantive content of strategic framework for the biennium 2008

C. Investment climate and international competitiveness

First is the development of a competition culture an understanding by the public of the benefits of competition and broad based support for a strong competition policy.

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36. The advent of electronic commerce constitutes a new challenge to thinking about competition and competitiveness in international trade.

The Australia Thailand agreement, for instance, contains a definition of the anti competitive practices to be proscribed these include business conduct or transactions that adversely affect competition, such as anti competitive horizontal arrangements between competitors misuse of market power, including predatory pricing anti competitive vertical arrangements and anti competitive mergers and acquisitions.

In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

To encourage self help, international efforts must ensure that free competition goes together with fair competition.

Such cooperation enabled the exchange of information and experiences between competition agencies and assisted in the effective enforcement of competition law against international hard core cartels.

has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive.

Enhancing the competitiveness of developing countries' firms through internationalization

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

While the traditional approach to competitiveness discounts the external economies associated with innovation, the more recent evolutionary neo institutionalist school proposes innovation and technical change at the firm level as a key determinant of international competitiveness in addition to the ability to compete in delivery on the basis of prior investments.

B. Making alternative energy sources competitive

For Africa to develop a competitive competence in the global arena requires enlightened and exemplary leadership committed to science and technology.

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In so doing, they are also transforming the nature of competition, which is increasingly taking place across and within industries internationally.

It is however a commercially competitive energy carrier, with oil being its main competitor.

Exposure to the competitive pressures of international trade, and the influx of foreign direct investment (FDI), may well be stimuli to improved competitiveness. But for many developing country enterprises, quite the opposite may also be true exposed to international competition, or to domestic competition from firms established with the help of FDI, they may be unable to compete.

Since competition laws and policy represented an extremely multidimensional and complicated issue, more international organizations would be involved in its consideration in the years to come.

Recently, it has been suggested that innovation based competitiveness, at the level of the enterprise, will yield more long term sustainable competitiveness than traditional cost based competitiveness.

They pointed to the historical adaptability of competition policies, and argued that competition advocacy would be difficult to conceive in the absence of an autonomous competition agency.

I tell you, between Sylvia and the competition, I'm so tired.

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.

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Renewable energy Materials science projects.

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In this perspective, firm level competitiveness refers to the ability to produce goods and services that can stand the test of international competition, while upgrading technological capabilities.

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The investigatory powers of the Competition Directorate in identifying and recording unlawful behaviour cover an extensive sphere of application ranging from regulation of the prices of certain products to market transparency and individual or collective competitive abuses.

Competitiveness is determined by both real and monetary factors.

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

ISPs would benefit from more competitive conditions for the purchase of international leased circuit capacity.

38. For international business, Bermuda requires effective and competitively priced communications.

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1. Technological capacity building and competitiveness

2. Segment for high level participation Globalization, competition, competitiveness and development

Entrepreneurship is responsible for much of the competition and innovation in the business world and is also held as central to nations trying to attain competitiveness in international markets.

Some of the cases reviewed demonstrate that anti competitive practices such as collusion and abuse of dominance occur in a variety of sectors and that in many instances anti competitive practices involve a mixture of vertical and horizontal anti competitive practices.

The APEC training programme on competition policy, which also aims at supporting the implementation of those Principles especially focusing on competition policy, has contributed to the encouragement of competition culture and the effective enforcement of competition law in the region through exchange of views and information.