And that is why we are focused, as the President was today, on a variety of measures aimed at continuing the economic recovery, increasing job creation, increasing competitiveness.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

With the fall from grace of the Japanese model in the 1990s and the increasing competitiveness of foreign firms, Japanese companies started to realise that they might benefit from outside expertise.

ECONOMIST: Still work to be done

There are some green shoots: exports to countries outside Europe are increasing and some competitiveness is returning.

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The AMP is geared towards helping U.S. manufacturers reduce costs and speed ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor, creating high quality jobs and increasing U.S. global competitiveness in manufacturing.

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If competitiveness in international business is an increasing worry, then someone should intervene to correct for the bad vibes these agencies send out, to citizens and visitors alike.

FORBES: Back to ICE-TSA

The spurt in productivity growth in America has pushed up share prices in anticipation of future productivity gains, and also improved the competitiveness of American goods, thus increasing the dollar's long-term equilibrium level.

ECONOMIST: Test-driving a new model

They are also a major factor eroding the competitiveness of domestic industry, which will face increasing foreign competition under WTO and ASEAN trade liberalization commitments.

CNN: Up from the Ocean

President Obama has said time and again that science and innovation are key components of a strong American economy and that increasing opportunities for young Americans to gain STEM skills can both create jobs and enhance our national competitiveness.

WHITEHOUSE: One Decade, One Million more STEM Graduates

Within the single-currency area competitiveness has to be regained the hard way by pushing down domestic costs or increasing productivity rather than the easier-to-swallow medicine of devaluation.

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