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Capaldo and his collaborators offer a starkly different outlook: a competitive race to the bottom in labor markets, with a decline in wages and government spending keeping a lid on aggregate demand and employment.
For the euro to help lift European growth and productivity in any significant way, governments must allow – indeed, encourage – stronger competitive forces across the EMU area.
But this increase in German labor costs is, in fact, precisely what Europe needs to accelerate its rebalancing, because it will help to realign the competitive positions of the northern and southern European economies.
Devaluation renders exports more competitive, thus substituting external demand for the domestic demand that is being compressed.
Second, the ongoing mayoral race is an unusually competitive election in Putin’s Russia.
What is clear is that the authorities want the Moscow mayoral election to be substantially more competitive than anyone expected it to be.
Navalny certainly is not perfect, and, though the Moscow election may be competitive by Russian standards, it is still outrageously unfair in terms of media access, financing, and voter intimidation.
Switching to English makes Japanese firms more competitive, while opening employees’ eyes to the outside world.
A few major pharmaceutical companies compete for a finite group of diabetics by offering new formulations, marginal improvements in blood-sugar control, competitive pricing, and strategic partnerships with insurers and health-care providers.
That goal requires that Russia rely on its real competitive advantages.
Treating foreign and domestic firms the same with respect to competitive practices would stop these abuses.
Since the Industrial Revolution in the West, Japan, several East Asian countries, and now China have all undergone large-scale industrialization, partly because they had competitive wages.
Sultan’s fortune is estimated at $270 billion, which he distributed between his sons prior to his death in order to shore up their political position in the competitive princely arena.
Today, Brazil is the world’s most competitive producer of renewable fuels, based primarily on bioethanol.
Our research shows that industrial policy was successful in promoting a competitive bioethanol industry in Brazil.
This competitive rationalization was the key to the policy’s success.
When Western companies had a near-monopoly on know-how and technology, their competitive edge more than compensated for distortions created by Chinese barriers to trade and investment.
Revaluation of the renminbi would make it more expensive for foreign firms to establish themselves (or expand) in China – the world’s most dynamic market – and would render exports of foreign affiliates, which account for 54% of total exports, less competitive internationally.
A renewed renminbi appreciation would boost China’s outward FDI growth even further by lowering the cost of overseas assets for Chinese firms, which operate in a fairly competitive market and have strong cash reserves from both retained earnings and large-scale state credit allocations.
The path to a more open, competitive, efficient, and humane economy will surely be bumpy in the years to come.
Two stand out: a largely uncorrupt, efficient, transparent, and accountable government, and an open and competitive economy.
While a relatively small business, military, and political elite misgoverned Thailand – often cynically, and sometimes incompetently – others in Asia, with more selfless and competent public servants, succeeded in finding their competitive niche in the modern world.
Thus, in the Heritage Foundation’s annual rankings of countries by how free and competitive their economies are, Thailand routinely comes up short.
But there is a third, more competitive option: a “blue” economy driven by business-level innovation, rather than top-down policies.
The combination of an Asian market with strong Chinese connections and a system of English law and property rights continues to provide a powerful competitive advantage.
Europe’s leaders must pursue a controlled segmentation of the eurozone, in which the most competitive countries – Austria, Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands – adopt a new currency, the “northern euro.”
This new monetary union would be managed according to the original Maastricht Treaty, with a truly independent central bank responsible for regulating the northern euro’s exchange rate against the euro, which less competitive countries would retain.
In the end, the income from privatization delivered little in the way of better infrastructure or more competitive exports.
Growth in exports could come with further expansion in parts of the value-added chains where the US is already competitive (finance, insurance, and computer systems design, for example).
The European Union's highly touted "Lisbon Declaration" of a few years ago, which proclaimed that Europe would become the world's most competitive region by 2010, appears laughable to Americans, whose productivity gains seem to scale new heights constantly.
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