Sentences with phrase «one's economic competitors»

Of course any agreement has to «include emerging economic competitors» — that's the whole point of an international framework, it's international and includes everybody.

And as globalization increases, foreign scientists who decide to return home not only take their knowledge with them but also often become economic competitors.

The interconnection of airports with high speed rail is not particularly visionary as it has been done before with great success by our leading economic competitors.

lead to a U.S. innovation deficit, as it comes at a time when China and other economic competitors continue their investment surge in research and higher education.»

That means that our trade policy will help to build a stronger America, preserve our national sovereignty, respond to hostile economic competitors, recognize the importance of technology, and seek opportunities to work with other countries that share our goals.

He means an unweighted average dragged down by small countries with ultra-low tax rates like Estonia, Ireland, Iceland, Chile, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, and Slovenia â $ «hardly Canadaâ $ ™ s foremost economic competitors.

Stimulative policies begun under former Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and continued by his successor, Janet L. Yellen, inadvertently channeled huge amounts of money into economic competitors abroad, including billions of dollars that bolstered China's industries and exports.

They are also economic competitors.

Some, such as Slovenia ($ 27,868) and Greece ($ 29,483), were roughly half as wealthy as the U.S. Only Norway ($ 53,968) and Singapore ($ 48,490) have higher per - capita wealth than the U.S. Overall, the countries with which we compare U.S. students are our major economic competitors.

It's is therefore in Western Europe's and Japan's interest to convince their main economic competitors not to utilize their inexpensively ex-tractable fossil fuels.

The rapid emergence of China, India, and other developing economies as formidable economic competitors to OECD economies has also rendered two further pillars of the old framework untenable: first, the notion that rich countries would agree to very deeply cut their own emissions to create more atmospheric space for poor nations emissions to grow or, alternatively, that they would heavily subsidize the deployment of cleaner but more expensive energy technologies in the developing world.

The increase to German and UK energy supplies would increase the economic competitiveness of France relative to its nearest economic competitors.

And to repeat myself some more: «Nor is it the case that adopting national standards would close the achievement gap between the U.S. and our leading economic competitors.

At the same time, China, India and other economic competitors are not likely to be in an agreeable mood at treaty talks in Copenhagen in December if faced with protectionist steps in the United States.

The United States is insisting on «aspirational» goals, saying that's the only way to draw in fast - growing powerhouses like China and India, and without them making commitments of some kind, emissions will continue rising (and Congress will also balk at approving any new pact that doesn't include emerging economic competitors).

The 2004 European Innovation Scoreboard, for example, highlights a continuing «innovation gap» between the European Union and its economic competitors, the United States and Japan.

Yet, even though our economic competitors outperform us, today's U.S. students do better than earlier generations of students.

The country can not afford to sit idly by as its economic competitors move clean energy manufacturing steadily overseas, and deprive Americans of solid job opportunities.

So, Government is backing an approach that works well here and in most of our economic competitors.

Debt overhang and ongoing deleveraging on the part of firms and households are the main culprits as well as higher structural unemployment and the stultifying double entendre of more or less permanently high taxes and excessive regulation relative to our economic competitors.