The process of globalization had largely affected the business environment for SMEs, and it was becoming increasingly important for firms to become internationally competitive, if they were to survive.

Zambia was struggling to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) while striving to build the capacities necessary for dealing with an increasingly competitive economic development environment.

As we become more comfortable in our environments, our model can move closer to our feelings.

The door to China's opening up to the outside world will become larger and larger and the business environment will become better and better. China will continue to be a hot spot for international investment.

The new peacekeeping model requires that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations be able to

More and more, the ground rules provided by the World Trade Organization reached across, into and around other issues and concerns ranging from investment and competition policy, to environmental, development, health and social policies.

Weaker exporters find it increasingly difficult to compete in world markets which are becoming ever more sophisticated and demanding.

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

Nuclear techniques are also increasingly being used in environmental applications.

Similarly, competition authorities are increasingly called upon to assess the potential anti competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions, that have either a domestic or an international dimension.

The result was an increasingly constrained environment for individuals fleeing persecution and violence, and for UNHCR seeking to secure their international protection.

More and more countries are enforcing competition laws more rigorously and also adopting tactics such as the introduction of leniency programmes and dawn raids.

These qualities are now needed within the United Nations library system in order to deal with the complexities of a continuously changing information environment and a working environment characterized by shrinking resources and a strong demand for client satisfaction.

Staff were being required to work in increasingly difficult and dangerous circumstances.

(a) Environmental conditions of transboundary waters

It is also possible to see in the politics of both parties mounting concern about globalization. With tougher economic times inevitably come tougher positions toward foreign competition and outsourcing.

Expresses its deep concern at the number and scale of disasters and their increasing impact within recent years, which have resulted in massive loss of life and long term negative social, economic and environmental consequences for vulnerable societies throughout the world, in particular in mountain regions 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.

Tourism is an economic activity largely carried out by the private sector with the role of governments to make policies and plans for tourism development in terms of national objectives including those related to sustainability.

There was also a fixed exchange rate that may have contributed to a growing loss of competitiveness since the baht was pegged to a rising dollar.

Video Crows have become highly skilled at making a living in these new urban environments.

The machines get ever bigger and ever more expensive.

For many SMEs it has become more and more difficult to compete successfully, both domestically and internationally.

Even though the share of internationally active SMEs was increasing, the majority of firms were not prepared to cope with the heightened international competition on the global market.

The result had been ballooning current account deficits and the slowing down of capital inflows as export and asset competitiveness had eroded with increasingly overvalued currencies.

Competitiveness in the tourism sector also requires expansion of the Territory s infrastructure and tourism plant capacity , increasing pressure upon the islands natural environment.3 The Territory s economy still ranks among the fastest growing economies in the Caribbean.

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

The second future could hardly be more different an Asia of increased tensions, rising military budgets, and slower economic growth. Such tensions could spill over and impede trade, tourism, and investment, especially if incidents occur between rival air or naval forces operating in close proximity over or around disputed waters and territories.

Allowing private sector participation in a country's important sectors is creating increasing opportunities and promoting competition.

UNIDIR's increasingly competitive programme brings young researchers from all over the world to work at UNIDIR for short periods.

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Shared values have a growing importance in the shaping of policies, attitudes and an enabling environment for social development.

Although some measures were adopted to grant compensation and prevent environmental damage, the situation deteriorated.

Yet politics in the US has increasingly allowed corporate profits to dominate all other aspirations fairness, justice, trust, physical and mental health, and environmental sustainability. Corporate campaign contributions increasingly undermine the democratic process, with the blessing of the US Supreme Court.

The more we insist that a banking system should be competitive, the greater the risks that individual banks will take. The more governments are prepared to step in, and the greater the resources of those governments, the more big banks and big countries will be favored.

Environmental hygiene is increasingly centred on the interior (dwellings, non commercial workplaces, interior of vehicles, etc.).

Proposition The more foreign direct investment policy is liberalized, the more important competition policy becomes

3. Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the review of progress in the implementation of specific conventions has increasingly been in the agenda of the sessions of the General Assembly.

Cross cutting projects, such as environmental protection and promoting women in development, have received a growing share of global official development assistance.

Contributing to a more level playing field

The Cuban revolution increasingly stood as an example of the achievement of independence.

The paradox is that, the more the protection of the human rights of migrants is promoted, the more discrimination there is because there is more competition for equality.

The more intact, the more complete, the more complex your food web, the higher the resilience, the more likely that the system is going to recover from the short term impacts of warming events.

This decline, coupled with increasing competition from previously for sale publications now made available free of charge on the Internet and the newly introduced free access to the Official Document System, is expected to result in the reduction of gross income at Headquarters in the biennium 2006 2007.

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