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Such a system would share many characteristics with national innovation systems, but would emphasize cooperation to achieve global sustainability goals, rather than economic
competitiveness.
Infrastructure increases economies’ competitiveness, while providing the physical framework for people’s lives.
But imagine the uproar against a tax on all capital goods: Woe betide those who would diminish domestic productivity and
competitiveness!
Some are economic: Barring a lasting (and still elusive) growth acceleration, the objectives of boosting
competitiveness
and achieving debt sustainability remain partly in conflict.
This approach would also create an opportunity to advance privatization, which could bolster innovation and
competitiveness.
Indeed, it would help to address a number of the most fundamental challenges facing China, from debt and overcapacity to lack of
competitiveness.
An SOE’s monopolistic or oligopolistic position at home no longer ensures its competitiveness, particularly in the context of disruptive new technologies that cross borders.
For all of these reasons, excessive austerity and deflation could defeat its own purpose and make the “reforms” to improve the southern European countries’
competitiveness
impossible to implement.
Moreover, it is clear that northern European countries could help to close the
competitiveness
gap more rapidly by encouraging faster wage growth.
As these countries posted current-account deficits, northern European countries accumulated current-account surpluses, exposing a widening
competitiveness
gap.
With the eurozone as a whole benefiting from a relatively solid balance-of-payments position, European leaders initially failed to foresee the risk incurred by letting
competitiveness
differentials grow, and underestimated the threat posed by some countries’ accumulation of significant external debt.
If, for example, meeting domestic inflation and employment targets requires greater monetary expansion – which will place downward pressure on the local currency, bolstering the economy’s international
competitiveness
– other countries may have to pursue their own monetary expansion to maintain optimal domestic inflation and employment rates.
Depreciation of the euro would be the best medicine for restoring international price
competitiveness
to the periphery countries and reviving their export sectors.
Free-trade agreements are as important to the UK’s effort to ensure its agricultural sector’s
competitiveness
as they were to New Zealand.
Italy is the only debt-distressed eurozone country in which the negative
competitiveness
trends (productivity relative to income) have not reversed direction in the post-crisis period.
Given Italy’s adverse
competitiveness
position, devaluation of the currency, were it possible, would not be a long-term substitute for productivity-boosting reforms, but it certainly would help in at least three ways.
This was a component of Germany’s successful reform program of a decade ago, which included labor-market and social-security reforms, the combined effect of which was to restore
competitiveness
and growth potential in the tradable sector, while improving productivity on the non-tradable side.
A common market – including harmonized policies for free movement of factors of production – will enhance competitiveness, industrial development, and productivity.
For southern Africa – indeed, for the continent as a whole – global
competitiveness
requires diversification to higher value-added and manufactured exports.
But, guided by the principle of the survival of the fittest, states are increasingly preoccupied with their
competitiveness
and unwilling to make any sacrifices for the common good.
Reducing the fragmentation of the European defense industry will enhance its competitiveness, which is essential for avoiding a technological gap between Europe and the US.
First, the eurozone authorities misread the real causes of the debt crisis, which stemmed mainly from a growing
competitiveness
gap between the core and periphery countries.
But the OMT scheme has not been reinforced by a reduction in key interest rates, which would boost inflation in core countries with external surpluses and thus help to close the
competitiveness
gap with the periphery.
With the economy likely to grow substantially as Chinese firms’
competitiveness
deteriorates due to rising wages, it is hard to imagine that German trade unions will not demand hefty real-wage increases as well.
On each front separately, he might manage to muddle through; together, they look likely to cement France’s loss of
competitiveness.
Declining
competitiveness
is best captured in a single indicator: unit labor costs, which measure the average cost of labor per unit of output.
A simple, effective way to buy time would be to abandon the euro and restore
competitiveness
through a devalued national currency.
For mainstream French politicians, renouncing the European project to buy the time required to restore
competitiveness
is as unthinkable as is the logical alternative: an all-out push for full European political union.
It would enhance US economic competitiveness, especially relative to Europe, given the lower costs involved in the extraction of shale gas.
By contrast, viewing China as an opportunity underscores the need for America to undertake its own rebalancing – rebuilding US
competitiveness
and pushing for a meaningful share of China’s coming boom in domestic demand.
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