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The thickest file on his desk concerns the Lisbon agenda, an ambitious programme approved in 2000 by the EU heads of state and government with the goal of making the Union "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge economy" by 2010.
The best therapy for reinvigorating growth is both direct, by increasing competitive pressure, and indirect, by triggering the necessary adaptation in national employment, welfare, and education policies.
By ruling out exchange-rate adjustment to address differences in competitiveness, the euro has forced less competitive countries to pursue painful and slow “internal devaluation” (suppressing real wages).
The only solution, many euro supporters now contend, is full political union, which would allow for fiscal transfers from the eurozone’s more competitive countries to their weaker counterparts.
Another potential approach would be for strong eurozone economies, especially Germany, to support productivity-enhancing structural reforms in less competitive countries like France and Italy.
But it also created competitive pressures for living space, with much of the struggle crystalizing in the antagonism between France and an emerging Germany.
What governments should do instead is to focus first on increasing research and development to make green-energy technology cheaper and more competitive.
Given that a country’s problems are rarely unique, innovative solutions can spawn globally competitive – even dominant – industries.
Beyond improving their own children’s performance, such efforts could spawn a globally competitive industry in state-of-the-art teaching tools.
But competitive cumulative devaluations will not arise.
In countries with little or no such endowments – where innovation, competitive efficiency, and a focus on production rather than rents is all the more important – the lack of good governance will lead to failure more rapidly.
In a world of weak multilateral institutions – including a G20 beset by substantial differences of opinion on basic questions – it is more important than ever that euro-zone governments bolster their collective clout in an uncertain, unprecedented, and competitive global environment.
To remain price competitive, they have had to rely on imported components.
But taking advantage of those technologies will require effective policies, including smart infrastructure investments and measures to make cities more competitive, particularly in modern industries.
Making its cities more competitive will require India to decide whether to emphasize specialization (with an industry concentrated in a particular city) or diversification (with each city home to a range of industries, roughly in line with the national average).
Banks geared up dramatically, in a competitive race to generate higher returns.
Another reason is that many of the manufacturing opportunities in Africa happen to be in globally competitive sectors such as automobiles and transport equipment, refined petroleum, computers, and office and industrial machinery.
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, more than half of the world’s 25 most competitive economies are among the 20 countries with the oldest populations.
To be sure, these rankings do not prove that aging drives countries’ competitive advantage.
As these countries’ median age continues to rise, microeconomic evidence indicates that they will remain competitive – particularly if they capitalize on people’s ability to remain productive for longer.
Thus, neoliberalism does not just require open and competitive markets, global change, and price stability.
Preserving a competitive environment in which markets remain open and contestable is the best tonic, because firms must constantly innovate and perform better under such conditions.
The “Single Market Acts I & II” provide a comprehensive agenda to tap fully the potential of an integrated and competitive market of 500 million consumers to catalyze growth and prosperity in the European Union.
The dollar is declining because only a more competitive dollar can shrink the US trade deficit to a sustainable level.
However, especially in the most competitive scientific fields, fraud often takes the form of forgery: the culprit fabricates data.
The Value of Being UndervaluedThe paramount policy dilemma that emerging markets face nowadays is this: on the one hand, sustained economic growth requires a competitive (read “undervalued”) currency.
On the other hand, any good news is immediately followed by currency appreciation, making the task of remaining competitive that much harder.
The importance of a competitive currency for economic growth is undeniable.
Maintaining a competitive currency requires a rise in domestic saving relative to investment, or a reduction in national expenditure relative to income.
Once the monetary rules of the game incorporate the real exchange rate, and assuming that fiscal policy remains supportive, investors can look forward to a less volatile and more competitive currency.
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