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The gap is simply too large between what is needed to restore
competitiveness
and what citizens can stomach if they remain part of the monetary union.
Spain and France would need a ten-year slump, with annual inflation 2% lower than that of their competitors, to regain their
competitiveness.
For Italy, the path toward
competitiveness
is shorter, but for Portugal and Greece it is substantially longer – perhaps too long.
Italy, France, and Spain should be able to regain
competitiveness
in the eurozone within a foreseeable period of time.
Unfortunately, old-fashioned protectionism will not boost American industrial competitiveness, even if it saves a few thousand jobs in sunset sectors.
With faster wage growth at a stable nominal exchange rate, and by encouraging unit labor costs to converge to those in developed economies, China’s real international
competitiveness
would be better calibrated.
In the absence of rebalancing, any one of several potential tipping points could seriously compromise the economy’s ability to pull off another soft landing: deteriorating credit quality in the banking system; weakening export
competitiveness
as wages rise; key environmental, governance, and social problems (namely, pollution, corruption, and inequality); and, of course, foreign-policy missteps, as suggested by escalating problems with Japan.
There is no evidence for Simon’s assertion that a commitment to social or environmental values is undermining US companies’
competitiveness.
The flow imbalances include a deepening recession, massive loss of external competitiveness, and the large external deficits that markets are now unwilling to finance.
Without a much easier monetary policy and a less front-loaded mode of fiscal austerity, the euro will not weaken, external
competitiveness
will not be restored, and the recession will deepen.
EU membership strengthens the UK's
competitiveness
by enabling it to negotiate the best deals on trade, tax rules, patents, money laundering, corruption, and security with China, India, and the rest of the world.
Above all, this will require structural change and greater
competitiveness
in an expanded tradable sector.
Fiscal stimulus, in the form of backloading deficit-reduction efforts, might help tide the economy over while structural adjustment and expansion of
competitiveness
in the tradable sector proceed.
Thus, as Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum observes, the “scarcity of a skilled workforce rather than the availability of capital is more likely to be the crippling limit to innovation, competitiveness, and growth.”
Specifically, an appreciating dollar improves the price
competitiveness
of European and Japanese companies in the US and other markets, while moderating some of the structural deflationary pressure in the lagging economies by causing import prices to rise.
Although the European Semester created a broad framework for coordination, it has failed to effectively improve competitiveness, growth, or employment across all EU countries.
During a 2008 campaign stop, for instance, then-candidate Barack Obama spoke in alarmed tones about the threat that such academic competition poses to US
competitiveness.
Unloading at an Atlantic port instead of a southern European port thus entails substantial additional financial and environmental costs, eroding Europe’s
competitiveness.
The renminbi-dollar exchange rate is, of course, only part of the story of what drives China’s trade
competitiveness.
While imports must, of course, be financed by exports, the focus on trade
competitiveness
is drawing attention away from Europe’s underlying problem – very weak productivity growth.
Governments obsessed with national
competitiveness
are likely to pursue damaging economic policies.
If economic growth is seen as being dependent on the cost
competitiveness
of exports, governments will focus on things that might make sense for exporters, but not for their economies as a whole, such as labor-market policies aimed at artificially holding down wage growth, which redistributes income from labor to capital and exacerbates inequality.
The chances for increased scale and
competitiveness
of key financial sectors, such as insurance, pension funds, and equity markets, will be real.
Currency devaluation – which would boost the
competitiveness
of domestic industry by lowering export prices – obviously is not an option in a monetary union.
And Europe’s troubled economies have been slow to undertake structural reforms; improvements in
competitiveness
reflect wage and salary cuts, rather than productivity gains.
But eliminating quotas in order to allow prices to reach market-clearing levels is not an option this time, owing to the complexity and
competitiveness
of the real-estate and bank-credit markets.
With the PBOC unable to sterilize the inflows, upward pressure on the renminbi’s exchange rate would threaten
competitiveness.
The US economy is still ranked near the top in
competitiveness
by the World Economic Forum, and the political system, in its own messy way, has slowly begun to wrestle with the necessary changes.
The country has fallen far behind in world
competitiveness.
That is precisely what the “responsibility pact,” which came into force on January 1, and the tax credit for encouraging
competitiveness
and jobs aim to do.
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