He argued that this would increase leisure time, quality of life, and benefit Japan's national competitiveness.

However, the tax burden is just one part of a complex formula describing national competitiveness.

And should the Government, through its tax policy, be subsidizing companies that save jobs at the cost of national economic competitiveness?

Shouldn't this be high on the agenda the next time Congress debates national competitiveness?

Useful to keep nasty kids away from your precious but not much use in terms of national competitiveness.

These days there is also a great deal of emphasis on education as a critical factor in national competitiveness.

For analyzing national competitiveness, we need to focus upon firm performance.

Whether this is a better measure of national competitiveness is still unclear.

These conditions are similar to those suggested by Porter's diamond model of national competitiveness.

He focused much of his academic research on the development of national and business competitiveness.