This means that all the main crisis countries are now taking steps to address the core competitiveness challenges at the heart of the situation.

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For Ford, sustainability is now a core business strategy that is improving competitiveness, creating jobs, and adding to the bottom line.

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So economic competitiveness requires that strong companies be good at multiple core skills.

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The World Economic Forum divides its report into nine core sections, which it calls "pillars, " representing measurements of different aspects of an economy's competitiveness.

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