Competitiveness
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What policymakers should really worry about are indications that the US may be losing its
competitiveness
as a location for this activity.
According to Chirac, France’s exports are lagging not because France is losing its international
competitiveness
– although it is, especially to Germany – but because of the strong euro.
Without it, the region will not be able to overcome its low levels of productivity and
competitiveness.
Third, despite some significant improvements, major deficiencies in the coverage and quality of infrastructure are clearly affecting
competitiveness
and increasing costs.
But its economic
competitiveness
is another story.
In this cup, Brazil does not even make it to the playoff round of 32, occupying 58th place in the
competitiveness
ranking of 139 countries compiled by the World Economic Forum.
First, not everything that Germany is arguing is wrong: the urgent need for medium-term fiscal consolidation and structural reforms to increase the crisis countries’
competitiveness
will not go away.
Moreover, in the 1980’s, Qaddafi invaded Chad and became a major sponsor of international terrorism, effectively ruling out any prospect of attracting the foreign investment needed to maintain
competitiveness.
But it is not impossible – as long as policymakers understand the critical role played by the exchange rate and the need to subordinate capital flows to the requirements of
competitiveness.
Just 50 basis points won't be enough to break a cycle of slack demand, lack of competitiveness, and restraint.
The real exchange rate is of paramount importance here, as it determines the
competitiveness
and profitability of modern tradable activities.
From this perspective, China’s currency policies not only undercut the
competitiveness
of African and other poor regions’ industries; they also undermine those regions’ fundamental growth engines.
In a desperate effort to do something – anything – to defend their economies, they turned to protectionism, imposing “exchange-rate dumping” duties, and import quotas to offset the loss of
competitiveness
caused by their own increasingly overvalued currencies.
They would have to tackle the banking and the sovereign-debt problems simultaneously, without neglecting to reduce divergences in
competitiveness.
This conclusion is based on comparing Muslim countries' "electoral competitiveness."
But electoral
competitiveness
is always a necessary condition for democracy - and therefore a central consideration when evaluating a country's prospects for democratization.
Unless Arab political culture is shown to be uniquely and permanently inimical to electoral competitiveness, it makes more sense to understand the democratic divide in the Muslim world in terms of the political - as opposed to the ethnic or religious - particularities of the Middle East and North Africa.
The EU needs a knowledge and innovation policy that strengthens European agriculture’s
competitiveness.
In the EU as a whole, a policy directed toward research programs stimulating scientific excellence and greater coherence in the European knowledge system would greatly strengthen agriculture’s
competitiveness
and contribute to food security and sustainable development.
One key to
competitiveness
will be high levels of education for a broad population.
But exchange rates are only one measure of
competitiveness.
Changing it is, therefore, not only vital for regaining competitiveness; it is also a critical test of the maturity of Spain’s democracy.
This hindrance to
competitiveness
is also linked to an underperforming, state-regulated higher-education system, with no Spanish public university among the top 150 ranked in the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, whereas three private institutions (IE, IESE, and ESADE) are all ranked among the top business schools worldwide.
These countries are trying to achieve a difficult “internal devaluation” – that is, a reduction in their domestic unit labor costs relative to the eurozone’s stronger economies – while the overall eurozone surplus caused by Northern Europe puts upward pressure on the exchange rate, undermining their
competitiveness
outside the monetary union.
Populist policies that transfer scarce budget funds to hundreds of millions of rural men and women end up encouraging them to withdraw their labor services, driving up wages and undermining international
competitiveness.
Europe retains an advantage in terms of pure science, as in the pharmaceutical industry, but emerging world-class companies, particularly in India, are increasingly able to recruit M.I.T. and Harvard graduates, while maintaining lower labor costs and thus global
competitiveness.
She pointed out that the Fed does indeed have the authority it needs, that the Basel agreements are not binding, and that, in any event, “strong regulatory standards enhance the stability of the US financial system” and promote the
competitiveness
of financial firms.
As China’s global economic role increases, its labor costs will rise and its currency will appreciate, eroding its
competitiveness.
Cheap land, cheap capital, and preferential treatment for state-owned enterprises weakens the
competitiveness
of private firms, which face high borrowing costs and often must rely on family and friends for financing.
At the same time, hyper-low-cost energy in the US is affecting Asian manufacturers’ competitiveness, at least for some products.
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