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United Nations Secretariat contractual restrictions, salary scales, grading of specialists and benefits are not competitive, even compared with those of other parts of the United Nations system.

(d) The right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work

(d) The right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work

(d) To right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work

The right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work.

(d) the right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work

Noting that, should the cumulative period of service of an ad litem judge of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia amount to three years or more, this will not result in any change in their entitlements or benefits and, in particular, will not give rise to any additional entitlements or benefits other than those that already exist and which will, in such an eventuality, be extended pro rata by virtue of the extension of service,

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.

See on this P. Brusick and J. Clarke, Operationalizing special and differential treatment in cooperation agreement on competition law and policy, in UNCTAD, Trade and Competition Issues Experiences at Regional Level.

(d) The right to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work

The elderly enjoyed the same rights as the disabled.

In this regard, special and differential treatment should be accorded to landlocked developing countries to compensate for their geographical disadvantages which erode their competitive edge at the world market.

By comparison, in market economies, competition policies appeared to be the most efficient way of preventing the welfare losses that occured in an imperfectly competitive environment.

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.

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.

This demonstrated that Norwegian industry managed to obtain a very good position relative to its competitors, and that it demonstrated its competitiveness.

Among the provisions potentially relevant to competition policy may be included those dealing with special and differential (S D) treatment.

WAYS IN WHICH POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ON COMPETITION MIGHT APPLY TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THROUGH PREFERENTIAL OR DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT, WITH A VIEW TO ENABLING THESE COUNTRIES TO INTRODUCE AND ENFORCE COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY CONSISTENT WITH THEIR LEVEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

GLOBALIZATION, COMPETITION, COMPETITIVENESS AND DEVELOPMENT

The race for national competitiveness is every bit as fierce as the competition among companies in the marketplace. Countries compete for investment, talent, growth, and opportunity in a globalized world, and those that are pushed out of the running surrender the greatest prize of all human development, prosperity, and happiness for their people.

This cooperation was facılıtated by common approaches to competition law and policy among cooperating countries.

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

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

Problems of access to quality transport services manifest themselves in the form of reduced profit margins, reduced competitiveness and constraints on business expansion.

has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive.

The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 1979 emphasizes the right of women to equal remuneration, including benefits, and to equal treatment in respect of work of equal value, as well as equality of treatment in the evaluation of the quality of work .

B. Making alternative energy sources competitive

(d) Monitoring of the exercise of delegated authority in the recruitment and placement of staff and the administration of their salary, benefits and entitlements.

Competitiveness Surveys

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

Discriminatory practices are prohibited because they are incompatible with free competition, which presupposes equal treatment applicable to all economic partners.

41. In SSA serious problems have been encountered in achieving greater competitiveness in non traditional exports.

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.

However, in order for it to take advantage of export markets, its industry needed to become more competitive.

Those of our products which are unable to compete on the international market, particularly bananas, should continue to enjoy special treatment for some time.

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.

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.

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.

Europe s Competitiveness Shell Game

Renewable energy Materials science projects.

Climate and Competitiveness

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programmes on competition law and policy

The limitations of many of our countries to compete should be compensated for by maintaining preferential treatment of developing countries.