Competition policies can spill over into trade in several ways.
Let me point to the fact that, after numerous reforms, the EU has finally built a huge and mature common market relying on sound monitoring structures, especially in terms of competition policies.
However, the EU has put forward a broader agenda, which would cover such issues as competition, environmental policies, and investment within trade talks.
But they also embrace the benefits of competition and liberal economic policies: policies that the French president and his supporters strenuously oppose.
Policies that encourage competition, if done correctly, can be a tool to help reduce crony capitalism, too-big-to-fail banks, and income inequality.
Hospitals, long pampered by policies that discourage competition, are nowadays also beginning to find out what people really think of them.
The Kremlin's policies have choked competition, both political and economic.
Americans reflexively support the idea to defend American jobs, but their common sense also informs them to be suspect of policies that would reduce competition and lead to higher prices.
These are supply side reforms in fiscal (taxation, especially corporate taxation, and government spending) policies and pro-competition and pro-growth changes in restrictive regulations (especially with respect to labor, agriculture, and land use).
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EU, the Netherlands wins, but Britain comes top on its policies towards private enterprise and competition.
With their goofy theories and their counterproductive policies, they posed no competition.
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The BJP is backed by some of India's largest businesses who fear economic competition from abroad and favour nationalist economic policies, including the rolling back of some economic reforms.
The best forum is the World Trade Organisation, which is increasingly hearing that national policies not only stifle domestic competition, but keep out imports and foreign investment as well.
Now, though, the ABS is trying to fight off irrelevance, competition and the effects of years of misguided policies.
Unlike their counterparts in more regulated sectors such as retailing and construction, Japan's small manufacturers are accustomed to competition, and therefore unafraid of the deregulatory policies of the current government.
These pro-growth reforms are the result of tax competition, or the pressure to adopt competitive economic policies that is put on governments by an increasingly globalized society where both labor and capital are mobile.
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Then there are antitrust policies, and worries about the loss of competition.
Pro-immigration policies are particularly opposed by young people fearing competition from newcomers, says Keiichiro Asao, an opposition politician who supports letting in more foreigners.
It's been evaluated by a number of departments throughout government, and believe that this -- removing this exemption will allow appropriate enforcement and examination of potential policies that might prove uncompetitive, might stifle competition, and we think this better promotes affordability and innovation through greater choice and less market concentration.
So just as there is market failure when there is inadequate or insufficient competition, the Republicans failed utterly to explain the far superior market policies of economic growth and prosperity, resulting in democracy failure.
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Family-based policies translate into broad success when they are paired with greater competition among insurers on a level playing field.
But, as illuminated in a book, Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan(2008), by Syracuse University professor Margarita Estevez-Abe, just looking at spending misses the arguably larger importance of a vast array of subsidy programs and policies that protect and cushion workers and citizens from market forces and limit competition.
Other problems for Hong Kong include a lack of highly skilled English-speaking labour, and government policies which the EIU said appear to favour some business tycoons and their companies instead of real competition.
And it should look again at the domestic policies that support freer trade: notably, measures to assist workers whose jobs are displaced by import competition.
She was determined to implement the policies, however uncomfortable and unpalatable they were at the time, to inject energy, enterprise and competition into business and into the economy.
In a brief spell as finance minister in 1994 (when he belonged to Mr Cardoso's party), Mr Gomes followed the sort of neoliberal policies he now criticises, such as cutting import tariffs to expose the local car industry to foreign competition.
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