Competitiveness
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Most obviously, Brexit would damage Britain’s export
competitiveness.
This substantial deficit is the consequence of a chronic gap between investment and saving, and past AKP governments’ failure to enact structural reforms to raise total productivity and enhance Turkey’s international
competitiveness.
The European Socialists will also have to define a more ambitious budget strategy, with higher spending for research, education, and other social investments, develop an industrial policy that transcends the simplistic logic of competitiveness, affirm a legal framework for European public services, and support greater EU-wide social and fiscal homogeneity.
On the upside, the US could have a “Sputnik moment”: a sense of national unity, common purpose, and shared sacrifice leads to structural reforms that focus on re-aligning balance sheets over the medium term, enhancing job creation, and improving
competitiveness.
But the currency’s overvaluation also underlies the lack of
competitiveness
that curbs franc-zone countries’ capacity to diversify their economies, create added value, and develop.
Fostering linkages with such workers is crucial for America’s competitiveness, particularly in the so-called STEM sectors – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
According to the World Economic Forum, greater gender equality, which implies greater use of human capital, correlates positively with per capita GDP, competitiveness, and human development.
The other natural shock absorber is a depreciating currency, which increases
competitiveness
in the area hit hardest.
The size of public debts, which had been ballooning in many countries during the crisis, together with growing
competitiveness
gaps between member states, began worrying markets.
Eurozone members facing a loss of
competitiveness
can no longer afford to skirt difficult but necessary reforms through a monetary “quick fix” that shifts the burden onto their trade partners: as always, beggar-thy-neighbor policies reward laxity and penalize virtue.
Most are international-relations experts who, viewing geopolitics through the lens of economic competitiveness, imagine the global order as a seesaw, in which one player’s rise necessarily implies another’s fall.
And while they lose market share, both at home and abroad, the US steel industry’s
competitiveness
will also decline, because it is being sheltered from foreign competition.
Several indicators suggest that, after decades of secular decline, America’s manufacturing
competitiveness
is indeed on the rise.
In fact, the real effective exchange rate (REER), adjusted by US manufacturing unit labor costs, has depreciated by 30% since 2001, and by 17% since 2005, suggesting a rapid erosion of emerging markets’ low-cost advantage – and giving America’s
competitiveness
a substantial boost.
The only solid evidence of an increase in US
competitiveness
stems from the sharp rise in output of shale gas.
More broadly, the data on US domestic production seem to be inconsistent with the behavior of the REER and its suggestion of a significant increase in
competitiveness.
But, with that outcome far from certain, the US cannot rely on a rapid increase in manufacturing
competitiveness
to underpin its economic recovery.
But a second, more current reason relates to lobbying from businesses, which argue that corporate
competitiveness
depends on cheap labor.
Even Greece, despite its rapidly eroding
competitiveness
and increasingly unsustainable fiscal path, could attract the capital that it needed.
Structural reforms are also necessary in most European economies to bolster
competitiveness
and boost potential growth.
The fundamental reason behind France’s current economic weakness is its lack of
competitiveness
even in other euro-zone economies where the euro is not a factor.
The eurozone should also pursue a policy – partially via looser monetary policy – that weakens the value of the euro significantly and restores the periphery’s
competitiveness.
Either the eurozone moves toward a different equilibrium – greater economic, fiscal, and political integration, with policies that restore growth and competitiveness, including orderly debt restructurings and a weaker euro – or it will end up with disorderly defaults, banking crises, and eventually a break-up of the monetary union.
Some conspiracy-minded commentators even suggest that this is related to Europe’s lack of competitiveness: instead of trying to keep up, they say, Europe has decided to find a way to slow everyone else down.
But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can hurt
competitiveness
and require costly resource allocation.
And pay no attention to the latest tally of international
competitiveness
by the World Economic Forum, which finds the US back in second place (out of 137 countries).
In a series of speeches over recent years, Cameron has spoken about a European reform agenda centered on increasing the EU’s
competitiveness
and improving its institutions’ transparency.
Such a strategy would also have to take into account the global
competitiveness
of British industry, and complement the country’s new independent trade policy.
At that rate, the country’s infrastructure and
competitiveness
will inevitably decline.
The tens of millions of students who remain in China would not gain the knowledge and skills needed to maintain, much less improve, the economy’s global
competitiveness.
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