It may also, at least transitionally, have spurred a certain (and rare for India) industrial competitiveness.
Sharon L. Poczter is an expert in emerging markets, financial economics, industrial competitiveness and strategy.
Mr. Taylor's critique while harsher than many businesses would endorse reflects broader concerns about France's industrial 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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Despite a well diversified and large economy, a gradual loss of competitiveness has eroded its export-oriented industrial base.
So now Heseltine will carry out the diagnosis that any industrial policy would first of all need: a competitiveness audit.
"These include the rigidities in labour and services markets, and low levels of innovation, which continue to drive France's gradual but sustained loss of competitiveness and the gradual erosion of its export-oriented industrial base, " Moody's said.
The falling currency has increased the competitiveness of Japan's exports, providing a respite for Japan's big industrial conglomerates.
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