Yet nothing beats it for long-term value creation or competitiveness.
Tariff cuts, noted the official China Daily, would force enterprises to boost their competitiveness or go bankrupt.
Others would accept more of it as the price for (in their view) more effective action to reduce unemployment, promote competitiveness or what have you.
K., but watch for overexcitement or too much competitiveness.
"Pride of ownership" was a favorite phrase of my father's, embodying an idea real as bread to a man of his background, one having to do not with social competitiveness or conspicuous consumption but with his standing as a manly provider.
Will China's exports hit the same barrier as a result of weakening competitiveness, or rising protectionism?
Is the EU - with its single market - part of the solution or does it reduce competitiveness?
Are these tools essential to competitiveness, or are they just expensive toys?
In January 2011, President Obama issued an executive order that called on agencies to remove outdated regulations or those that harmed competitiveness.
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But it's unclear how either of those two measures would directly boost competitiveness, or the ability of euro-zone businesses to produce world-beating goods and services at low cost.
"If you look out five years, we can gain back all the competitiveness Thailand or Indonesia or the Philippines had when their currencies devalued, " says the General Chamber's Tien.
No one raised questions about the current level of Microsoft's own competitiveness--or its bruising battle with Internet king Google.
No one raised questions about the current level of Microsoft's own competitiveness--or its bruising battle with Internet king Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ).
According to one of those advisers, with the exception of America, nearly all the countries that are around or above Britain in the international competitiveness league tables (the Scandinavians, Canada, Singapore, the Netherlands) combine exactly the kind of economic dynamism with the extensive and relatively efficient public sectors that New Labour wants.
To regain competitiveness, wages must fall or productivity must rise.
Sanctions would kick in earlier than is the case under the current SGP, enabling the EU to take preventive action for example against a country with an unsustainable housing bubble or with unsustainable debt that undermines its competitiveness.
And weak coalition politics undermine hopes of a tight fiscal policy or of structural economic reforms that would maintain competitiveness as costs rise.
And if the flood of foreign capital intensifies, developing countries may be forced to choose between losing competitiveness, truly draconian capital controls or allowing their economies to overheat.
Because, like it or not - and Germans don't - competitiveness is inherently relative.
"We have no interest in creating capital controls or implementing other broad measures that could damage the competitiveness and attractiveness of the U.S. capital markets, " according to Bachus, who says he and Kucinich seek to preserve the free flow of foreign capital into and out of the United States.
Ganguly, you feel, would bring the same hyper-focused competitiveness to a game of backyard cricket, or tiddlywinks.
Over time, failure to make such investments slowly degrades our competitiveness, leaving us without the skilled workforce or the technologies or the basic infrastructure that a 21st century economy requires.
The local currency could be devalued based on an agreed upon schedule or allowed to float within a specified range in order to restore competitiveness and economic growth in the local market.
"There's sort of concern in the industry that if you had only one or two players in the marketplace, that some of the pricing competitiveness wouldn't be there, " says Boston Stock Exchange Chairman Michael Curran.
The World Economic Forum ranks Indonesia 69th out of 104 countries for its international competitiveness, far behind regional rivals such as Malaysia, Thailand or China.
Attempts to regulate or restrict the export of American biotechnology are likely to backfire and hurt American competitiveness.
Short-termism has resulted directly or indirectly in corporate earnings games, the deferral of investments needed for long-term competitiveness and the transformation of investment and commercial banking from a capital-facilitating agency service business into a principal proprietary trading business.
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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Within the euro, it has suffered a big loss of competitiveness as unit labour costs have shot up, largely because productivity has been stagnant or even fallen.
"There are many other rather competitive economies in Europe, like Germany, or Sweden, or Finland, which share all those policy areas, and they haven't harmed our competitiveness, " Mr. Katainen said Wednesday.
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