It is unclear exactly what companies have filed complaints with the anti-trust corporate competitiveness group, CADE.

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But Conservative MP John Redwood, chairman of the party's policy review group on economic competitiveness, disputes that this was Thatcher's aim.

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But Tory former minister John Redwood, leader of his party's policy group on economic competitiveness, branded the bank levy a tax on lending money to businesses and individuals.

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That's the thinking behind the work of John Redwood's Economic Competitiveness Policy Group.

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MarshallCarterMarshall Carter, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Group, testified that Sarbanes-Oxley has undermined the international competitiveness of our capital markets, prompting international companies to choose to list abroad.

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At the Boston Consulting Group, we have developed a new ranking to determine the educational competitiveness of countries: the BCG E4 Index.

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Polish MEP Tadeusz Cymanski, speaking for the Eurosceptic EFD group, said it was important to strike the right balance between competitiveness and protection of workers.

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Every year, the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, the same group that holds the high-powered annual meeting in Davos, publishes a Global Competitiveness Report.

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