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Moreover, competitive funding for research at the university level must be increased substantially.
The International Monetary Fund was established 70 years ago to manage an “adjustable peg” system – a hybrid system in which exchange rates were usually fixed to the US dollar, but could be adjusted occasionally to improve the country’s competitive position in export markets.
This brought significant stability to the global monetary order, following the competitive devaluations of the 1930s that some economists considered damaging.
Japan’s high-tech industries remain competitive, and the country is still the world’s second largest exporter.
The higher the productivity and the quality of export activities, the higher the wages they can pay and still remain competitive.
Successful places tend to move from a few technologically simple industries that are competitive enough to export their products to a greater number of industries that are increasingly complex.
That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price – not at an inflated monopoly price.
Yet some economists and journalists fear that countries, in attempting to gain an advantage in global markets, will engage in competitive devaluations, triggering large-scale inflation in the process.
While a truly competitive private sector has to be unleashed, the state must not be weakened but transformed, to become one that is at the service of citizens.
Under current conditions, it is hard for the periphery countries to reduce their costs to internationally competitive levels, as they need to do.
Once freed from the flawed CAP, Brexit’s proponents argue, the UK will be able to build a more competitive agricultural sector that better serves farmers and agricultural workers, including by reducing dependence on distorting subsidies.
But the primary objective must not be to ensure that British agricultural exports are competitive.
In a competitive market system, people are said to be paid what they are worth: so top CEOs add 263 times more value to the American economy than the workers they employ.
A biopharma megafund would offer a competitive edge in the industry, with lower development costs, a higher success rate, and faster time to market.
This may be particularly relevant today, with China’s rising wages and appreciating exchange rate underscoring rapid change in global comparative and competitive advantage.
CAMBRIDGE – For five decades, developing countries that managed to develop competitive export industries have been rewarded with astonishing growth rates: Taiwan and South Korea in the 1960’s, Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore in the 1970’s, China in the 1980’s, and eventually India in the 1990’s.
The US must choose between job creation, which requires a more competitive exchange rate, and cheap financing of its external and fiscal deficits.
Wherever industrialization has occurred, it has reliably improved economic diversification and helped to nurture, strengthen, and uphold the conditions for competitive growth and development.
The main scientific underpinning of the laissez-faire doctrine is the theory that free and competitive markets bring supply and demand into equilibrium and thereby ensure the best allocation of resources.
There are, no doubt, competitive and other consequences to adopting a more conservative approach that factors in periodic systemic risk, and they will vary across institutions.
In addition to this difference in the relative magnitude of imports, the benign price effect of low-cost import competition is much larger in Germany’s competitive retail landscape than in the more traditional, and uncompetitive, retail systems of Italy or Greece.
But it will also accelerate a solution to the eurozone’s main structural problem: its internal competitive imbalances, owing to wage-growth trends since the introduction of the euro that underpinned to Germany’s large trade surplus vis-a-vis the rest of the eurozone.
In order to stimulate GDP growth, encourage the establishment of competitive and dynamic enterprises, facilitate larger trade flows, and create more jobs, they must dismantle barriers that raise costs, inhibit competition, and deter new investment.
Remaining in a currency union with the much more competitive German economy will require wrenching and rapid reforms, for which Hollande’s tepid approach will fail to prepare the complacent French.
The result will be even more support than was seen in last April’s presidential election for extremist political parties that reject both Europe and competitive market capitalism.
Such deals would ease concern in competitive global industries that strict emission rules in one region would put companies at a disadvantage relative to rivals in countries with less strict policies.
The Return of the Renminbi RantNEW HAVEN – China’s currency, the renminbi, has been weakening in recent months, resurrecting familiar charges of manipulation, competitive devaluation, and beggar-thy-neighbor mercantilism.
This includes not only financial deregulation, but also central bank independence, the separation of monetary and fiscal policies, and the assumption that competitive markets require no government intervention to produce an acceptable income distribution, drive innovation, provide necessary infrastructure, and deliver public goods.
But it is mainly private companies that are now producing wind turbines and solar panels, and it is private investors, submitting competitive bids in power auctions, who are financing renewable power and earning good returns, despite ever-falling prices.
Europe should have used its regulatory power and managed the conflict between systemic and competitive risk that all this emergency public funding was generating, but the competition watchdog’s contradictory request that companies receiving funding should reduce credit to their clients made this well nigh impossible.
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