But creating a financial competition for hardest hit provides a perverse incentive for kids to hurt, rather than to merely make a play.
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The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom, which is a joint project of The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, ranked 183 countries based on 10 measures that evaluate such things as openness to trade and investment, government size, fiscal soundness, business and labor regulation, property rights, corruption, monetary stability and financial competition and transparency.
The ICB, chaired by Sir John Vickers, has been set up to look at financial stability and competition.
Just as London has continued to thrive as a financial centre despite competition from cheaper locations, so Britain's business services will continue to prosper in the age of offshoring.
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Soros admits that opening up the financial sector to foreign competition may not be the best way forward.
And as the 1990s have seen ferocious competition between financial companies to lend to lower-tier borrowers, virtually anyone can get a credit card.
Seoul must move decisively to really reduce trade barriers and open domestic industry and financial markets to foreign competition and capital, including those from Japan.
The ECB is also understood to want a greater say in the running of the Champions League and a bigger financial stake in the competition.
On May 1, 1975, the Securities and Exchange Commission deregulated commissions among stock brokers, unleashing intense competition among financial services firms and giving birth to the now widespread practice of individual investing.
The Malaysian leader may also be echoing a cry of fear and pain from all Asia, whose world-beating growth looks set to slow in the face of increasing financial woes and global competition -- both triggered in large part by liberalization.
The United States is prodding poor countries hard to open their financial sectors more to foreign competition.
And customers are getting what they want, thanks to all of the competition in the financial services industry.
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But Mr Huhne also warned that Edinburgh faced stiff competition from other financial centres for the prize, notably London and Leeds.
Reducing unneeded redtape and regulations, and deregulating the energy, transportation, and financial industries have unleashed new competition, giving consumers more choices, better services, and lower prices.
If Japan's Big Bang manages to inject more competition into the financial-services industry and make it more transparent, the products on offer should become more tempting.
The Corporation of London, the Square Mile's local authority, wants more tall buildings because it fears competition from rival financial districts and not just Frankfurt and Paris.
Our Mayor Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P. after he left Salomon Brothers, filled the space of online financial data better than his competition and deserves all his successes.
But as competition from other financial centers intensified, London let its standards slip, relying on its fabled light-touch regulation and the lure of deep pools of passive money to attract businesses that ordinary British savers should never have been exposed to.
Since the U.S. is a part of the same global financial marketplace, does this administration believe this may affect competition between the U.S. and the UK in the financial services market?
While not inaccurate, this explanation raises questions about how competition works in the financial industry.
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In time, the circulating dollars or yen or euros handed out in financial rescues would create some healthy competition for other currencies.
But their ratings enjoyed privileged recognition in regulations governing investments by banks and other financial institutions, protecting them from competition, so they had incentives to avoid rocking the boat.
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Liberalised financial markets are letting in more competition.
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The competition which promised financial commitments from an array of international donors to help the winners scale up their ideas drew 350 inspiring entries from more than 20 countries.
In March China set production targets of 6.5bcm by 2015 and up to 100bcm by 2020, and announced measures to encourage competition, along with various financial inducements.
On his recent visit to China, treasury chief John Snow hectored his hosts less about the allegedly undervalued yuan and more about Beijing's moving faster to open its financial services industry to foreign investment and competition.
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