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But his vast wealth testifies to the uncompetitive nature of the Mexican telecoms market in which he built his initial fortune.

But that would not be a solution if it merely lead to indefinite financing of fundamentally uncompetitive economies.

For the country is not just bust, it is deeply uncompetitive, and dealing with that will require years of painful reforms.

Even though it had some of the best products, its prices were uncompetitive and it was losing money.

"This issue seems to have dwarfed anything else, " Mr. Capo said. "All it does is make the union more uncompetitive than it already is. "

Your offer is uncompetitive compared to that of other firms.

The result is an uncompetitive and sluggish industry, at odds with the dynamism of the economy as a whole.

Because any activity which is open to international trade is basically going to be uncompetitive in a post-conflict situation.

By contrast, Japan's cartelized industries, like those in the United States, Germany and Switzerland are relatively uncompetitive.

But many states face another grim outcome: years of low growth caused by uncompetitive exchange rates and sluggish productivity.

It is unfortunate that the US, which has led the capitalist world for so long, is woefully uncompetitive in corporate tax policy.

Start with a decision that, for a severely uncompetitive country, such as Greece, exit would be co-operative.

Such a weak dollar makes US trading partners very uncompetitive.

It has shown how regulators can, if they choose, take vigorous action to shake up uncompetitive bits of the aviation business.

And the rise of the euro against the dollar has made much of its production uncompetitive.

A second European says that governments should focus on ensuring individual workers are employable, not propping up uncompetitive firms.

A country with an uncompetitive exchange rate will struggle to sell its wares abroad and will also cede its home market to foreign firms.

Companies that become uncompetitive in their core business lines tried clumsily to claw their way up the value chain.

Its home market in Italy is too small, and its operations there too uncompetitive, to provide the basis for long-term survival.

At the other end of the scale, many European currencies look uncompetitive.

Barriers to entry are a standard explanation for an uncompetitive market.

Two years later, a change to the rules made turbine cars hopelessly uncompetitive. Boo.

Chief Financial Officer Lewis Booth told reporters Ford had a lot of work to do on what he called its "uncompetitive balance sheet. "

Thanks to rising costs, Spanish exports became increasingly uncompetitive, but job growth stayed strong thanks to the housing boom.

But if national policy makes this crucial middle link of manufacturing uncompetitive, then the whole supply chain will eventually shrink.

Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator. Its products are lampooned, often unfairly but sometimes with good reason.

Not having the tenacity or stomach to negotiate terms that are reflective of today's economy may leave a company uncompetitive.

And when the bubble burst, Spanish industry was left with costs that made it uncompetitive with other nations.

While this initially boosted consumption, it made the region's industry terminally uncompetitive overnight.

Those taxes are passed through businesses, making French goods very expensive and ultimately uncompetitive on the world market.

Market forces are signaling that Wenzhou's old industries are increasingly uncompetitive.

While they remain highly uncompetitive to fossil fuels, they have overtaken nuclear on a cost per kilowatt basis.

Germany could avoid such choices before the single currency: uncompetitive countries simply devalued.

One traditional fix is tariffs and subsidies, which can offset an uncompetitive exchange rate.

One, of course, is that downstream industries typically become more uncompetitive.

Industry groups have warned this would make EU banks uncompetitive in rival markets in Asia and the US.

Our export product is low-skilled, uncompetitive, so it often encounters trade friction.

Uncompetitive, previously protected firms will go out of business.

Uncompetitive economies must shake up their labour and product markets .

"Britain is uncompetitive in the world, " Mr. Mills said. "Sooner or later the pound will crack and the markets will come tumbling down. "

We know how they happened: Germany entered the eurozone at an uncompetitive exchange rate and embarked on a long period of wage moderation.

Soaring wage and price inflation would restore the uncompetitive status quo.

The fault lies chiefly with India's uncompetitive manufacturing.

Then there is the problem that much of Spanish industry is uncompetitive, with very low productivity.

Chinese wages can rise without becoming uncompetitive so long as Chinese productivity keeps pace with wages.

I am not saying Germany should make its workers uncompetitive or accept much higher inflation, either.

Italy shows a surprising fondness for markets for a place that is uncompetitive in many sectors.

As raw materials prices declined in late 2008 and early 2009, output from Chinese mines plunged because their mines were uncompetitive.

Do you fill in your personal details on an insurance comparison website every year, or just accept uncompetitive renewal terms?

Compared with whinto is quoted by other suppliers, your price is uncompetitive.

As Japan moved into higher-value exports, rising productivity pushed up wages, making old industries, such as textiles, uncompetitive.

In short, too many of France's firms are uncompetitive and the country's bloated government is living beyond its means.

The artificially cheap yuan, it is argued, keeps Chinese goods cheap so that U. S. industry is uncompetitive.

Both may raise the banks' borrowing costs and make some of their global businesses uncompetitive.

The problem is that many home-grown industries are uncompetitive oligopolies.

An uncompetitive industry, on the other hand, may not be oriented toward innovation and thus may be tempted to fight all regulation.

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third, permanent financing by the core of an uncompetitive periphery;