Rather than threatening protectionism, leaders must redirect their energies toward improving competitiveness and opening markets.
For Ford, sustainability is now a core business strategy that is improving competitiveness, creating jobs, and adding to the bottom line.
But levying new taxes could jeopardise Argentina's second big goal: improving competitiveness.
Legislation will be introduced to promote electronic commerce and start modernising the law, improving competitiveness by enabling the United Kingdom to compete in the new digital marketplace.
As in Ireland, prices in Spain fell faster in the year to October than in the rest of the euro area, a sign of improving competitiveness (see right-hand chart).
This means that Argentina's path to restoring market confidence and improving competitiveness lies in a tough slog of tight fiscal policy and structural reforms to make the economy more flexible.
The Alliance's longer-term proposals are aimed at improving competitiveness.
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But now the commission says the money should be spent on much hazier causes such as improving competitiveness, stimulating industrial innovation, creating sustainable economic development and equalising economic opportunities for men and women.
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First, the Obama administration ignores history by embracing the widespread belief that devaluing the dollar against the renminbi will reduce the trade deficit by improving the competitiveness of the U.S. economy.
That way, at least, it could write down the value of its private and public debts, as well as cutting its wages and prices relative to those abroad, improving its competitiveness.
We believe that the acquisition is a step in the right direction towards improving the competitiveness of the card business, and it will definitely add value by helping Capital One identify customer requirements better, thereby allowing it to set aside lower provisions over the years to come.
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We must look at improving innovation and competitiveness as a long term proposition.
It is against this background that a weak centre-left government drawing on support from unions may find it even harder to enact the kind of reforms that stand any chance of improving productivity and competitiveness.
Critics contend that keeping interest rates artificially low to encourage borrowing merely encourages companies to waste money and avoid improving their efficiency and competitiveness.
U.S. producers account for over half of the value of U.S. imports, which means there is great potential to increase their competitiveness by improving their access to imports.
Lady Jo Valentine is the chief executive of London First, an organisation which campaigns on behalf of most of the capital's biggest companies and employers with the aim of improving the city's competitiveness.
International competitiveness and exports are improving faster than expected.
As all these players are improving technology and performance to sharpen competitiveness, there is real fear at MHI that a one year delay will be severely disadvantaging in the fight for new orders.
To bolster its overall competitiveness, Nokia has been focused on improving its smartphone offerings.
"There is no other purpose than to strengthen the country's competitiveness by creating a new growth engine and improving the people's lives by creating many good jobs, " she said.
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