Kuroda s stance has already weakened the yen s exchange rate, making Japanese goods more competitive.

Those countries that persist with these reform efforts could well emerge leaner and more competitive.

Firms that invest little will become uncompetitive.

Each time, the Yen weakened, making Japan s exports particularly electronics and automobiles more competitive internationally.

Companies formed international links in order to remain competitive.

A 20 dollar depreciation would therefore reduce Americans purchasing power by only 3 . At the same time, the lower dollar makes American products more competitive in global markets, leading to increased exports and reduced imports.

At the same time, the lower dollar makes American products more competitive in global markets, leading to increased exports and reduced imports.

Soviet era industrial company towns turn out to be less competitive in the post industrial era.

Above all, local companies need to be supported when they make moves to become more efficient, innovative, and competitive.

Over time, they will foster productivity and flexibility, and the countries that implement them thoroughly should thus become more competitive.

He cited China and Russia as more successful countries, not for ideological reasons, but because he thinks that they are more competitive in today s world.

To be sure, the falling dollar over the past few years has made American products more competitive and has caused the real value of US exports to rise sharply by more than 25 over the past three years.

Allowing their currencies to depreciate in real terms would make their products more competitive, and also provide an incentive for production to shift out of non tradables into tradables.

But putting a price on carbon emissions, more than any other approach, provides an integrated framework for discouraging old carbon era energy technologies and incentivizing new ones by making it easier to compete.

At the end of September, Somaliland will hold its third presidential election, the previous two having been open and competitive.

Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive. Other countries enjoyed housing and consumption booms on the back of cheap credit, making them less competitive.

Other countries enjoyed housing and consumption booms on the back of cheap credit, making them less competitive.

Navigating these changes is essential for emerging market stock exchanges if they are to be competitive on a global level. In particular, they must prepare themselves to deal with falling prices for financial services.

Navigating these changes is essential for emerging market stock exchanges if they are to be competitive on a global level.

But conservatives have argued that in order to remain competitive in a global world, taxes must be cut and the welfare state reduced.

China does not yet have global cultural industries on the scale of Hollywood or universities capable of rivaling America s.

The sorry state of wind and solar power shows the massive challenge that we face in trying to make today s technology competitive and efficient.

Much of the advanced engineering is homegrown. Turkish construction firms are internationally competitive and increasingly win bids throughout the Middle East and Africa.

Turkish construction firms are internationally competitive and increasingly win bids throughout the Middle East and Africa.

Global cities compete to provide an ideal life and work environment for innovators, and to harness their creativity to become stronger and more competitive still.

China s exchange rate intervention probably hurts a number of other emerging market exporters that do not intervene as much and are less competitive as a result.

In the aftermath of the international financial crisis of 1997 1998, many emerging markets found themselves through currency depreciation, rapid productivity gains, or both highly competitive.

We must become faster, more flexible, and more effective more modern.

Indeed, a sustained decline in oil prices would not only make renewable energy sources less competitive now it would impede their future competitiveness by discouraging research and investment.

That should make them more humble, more vulnerable and more human.

Among other matters, it is essential to create the preconditions to attract additional investment into the region, as well as to form priority development areas, which should become competitive vis à vis major business centres in the Asia Pacific region, the President emphasized.

Nowadays, instruments of mass destruction are smaller, cheaper, and more readily available.

The opportunity to build a safer, fairer, and more united world has been largely squandered.

A more democratic Iraq has become a more violent Iraq.

It makes it more organic, more natural.

Ever since China rejoined the global economy three decades ago, its trading partners have been snapping up its manufacturing exports, because low Chinese wages made them super competitive.

If Greece wants the prosperity associated with a technologically advanced, twenty first century economy, it will have to earn it, by producing innovative products that are competitive on world markets, just as Germany does.

High carbon growth is doomed, crippled by high prices for fossil fuels and killed off by the hostile physical environment that climate change will create. Low carbon growth will be more energy secure, cleaner, quieter, safer and more bio diverse.

Low carbon growth will be more energy secure, cleaner, quieter, safer and more bio diverse.

No more.

There is more.

And it gets even more extreme.

All the more so.

We currently have a gap between our ambitions and our resources which must be addressed.

Clearer priorities and more sensible budgeting decisions are needed.