Competitiveness
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Now it is China’s turn to hope that currency devaluation will help it regain
competitiveness.
But they also need to do much more to promote innovation and
competitiveness.
To try and ease the harm that all this assistance was doing to EU competitiveness, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition warned that it had little option but to block state aids – but then quickly capitulated to vociferous national protests.
On the tradable side,
competitiveness
depends not only on human capital, but also on a host of other factors: infrastructure, tax systems, regulatory efficiency, policy-induced uncertainty, and energy and health-care costs.
Only then can Argentina achieve greater social equality and boost economic
competitiveness.
It is true that Greece has had to undergo painful adjustments to address its deep structural weaknesses, unsustainable public finances, and lack of price
competitiveness
– adjustments that led to a drop in Greek output.
To be sure, in recent years, the European institutional framework has undergone major reforms that reflect the principles of “Maastricht 2.0,” such as the need to emphasize national responsibility for public finances and international
competitiveness.
Despite – or because of – this windfall, Southern European countries’ manufacturing sectors are still a long way from regaining
competitiveness.
Leaving the eurozone would make it easier for the most distressed countries to regain
competitiveness.
This must change, with the EU demonstrating its capacity to attract the talent and labor needed to ensure economic growth and
competitiveness.
The introduction of the euro was supposed to reinforce convergence; in fact, it created divergences, with widely different levels of indebtedness and
competitiveness
separating the member countries.
Along with regulatory capture, this harmed competitiveness, market openness, and Egypt’s small and medium-size businesses.
The northern countries argue that permitting wage growth and boosting domestic demand would reduce their
competitiveness
and trade surplus.
Both leaders will need to concentrate on the big picture: how to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes, in terms of productivity, competitiveness, and innovation.
Although rising labor and energy costs have eroded the industry’s competitiveness, the government continues to demand more.
The eurozone’s peripheral countries, including Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and Spain, found themselves pinned to the mast of the common currency, unable to gain
competitiveness
through exchange-rate depreciation.
Not only will consumers face higher costs for autos; the disruption of existing efficient supply chains may even leave the US auto industry as a whole worse off, as it undermines the international
competitiveness
of North American output.
A company’s legal residence and geographic sources of income can be and are manipulated for such purposes, and the incentives and scope for such manipulation are especially large in sectors where competitive advantage depends on intangible capital and knowledge – sectors that play a major role in the US economy’s
competitiveness.
One of the biggest failures of the eurozone periphery is a loss in competitiveness, hidden by a wall of credit that has been leveraged from Germany’s balance sheet.
As a result, most emerging-market economies are now similarly worried about currency appreciation, lest they lose
competitiveness
relative to China, and are intervening aggressively and/or imposing capital controls to stem upward exchange-rate pressure.
To diversify away from US dollar assets while maintaining its effective dollar peg, China started to buy Japanese yen and South Korean won, hurting their
competitiveness.
Given many economic sectors’ lack of
competitiveness
and the inadequacy of the educational system, the Saudi population – 70% of which is under 35 years old – will experience skyrocketing unemployment in the coming years.
Obama rightly emphasized that
competitiveness
in the world today depends on an educated workforce and modern infrastructure.
America and Europe will keep their high living standards only by basing their
competitiveness
on advanced skills, cutting-edge technologies, and modern infrastructure.
On the one hand, the US government must invest more to promote economic
competitiveness.
America is losing its international competitiveness, neglecting its poor – one in five American children is trapped in poverty – and leaving a mountain of debt to its young.
Meanwhile, Germany benefited from the euro crisis, which depressed the exchange rate and boosted its
competitiveness
further.
Europe has made some modest efforts to regain university
competitiveness.
The result is often a wage-price spiral that quickly offsets the
competitiveness
gains of a weaker currency.
Competitiveness
does not depend only, or even primarily, on the exchange rate.
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