Competitiveness
in sentence
1286 examples of Competitiveness in a sentence
But all of the options that might restore
competitiveness
require real currency depreciation.
It took Germany ten years to restore its
competitiveness
this way;Greece cannot remain in a depression for a decade.
A return to a national currency and a sharp depreciation would quickly restore
competitiveness
and growth.
Reintroducing the drachma risks exchange-rate depreciation in excess of what is necessary to restore competitiveness, which would be inflationary and impose greater losses on drachmatized external debts.
Other peripheral countries already have Greek-style problems of debt sustainability and eroded
competitiveness.
The experience of Iceland and many emerging markets over the past 20 years shows that nominal depreciation and orderly restructuring and reduction of foreign debts can restore debt sustainability, competitiveness, and growth.
More troubling, Eurobonds would not eliminate divergences in
competitiveness.
The debtor countries would regain their
competitiveness.
Which measures can ensure the EU’s global
competitiveness?
The burden of proof must be on fossil-fuel-based solutions – particularly coal – to demonstrate their
competitiveness
after accounting for the full environmental, health, and social costs.
We agree that the single-minded pursuit of
competitiveness
is turning Europe into a zero-sum, beggar-thy-neighbor game, but disagree about how to bring about the large-scale investment needed to support productivity improvements.
But this confuses economic
competitiveness
with military power.
But, either way, both provisions will reduce the
competitiveness
of North American producers across the board.
The same factors that made Europe a sub-optimal currency area have also led to a steep erosion in European
competitiveness
over the past decades.
Europeans continue to look inward, obsessed with their own problems of declining
competitiveness
and how to pay for entitlements that they have come to regard as theirs by right.
Over time, such costs could damage the
competitiveness
of Chinese manufacturers – or drive them to friendlier markets.
And, like many of them, China is now facing a “middle-income trap”: as wages rise, its low-end manufacturing is losing global
competitiveness
while government policies, endemic corruption, and dominant state-owned enterprises are stifling the type of private-sector innovation that China needs most to generate products and services with higher added value.
Doing so would not only improve productivity, competitiveness, and business results over time.
Other countries could change their exchange rates, and in this way could maintain greater export
competitiveness.
They are likely to continue this policy, as the alternative would be a sudden setback to the
competitiveness
of their export sectors in the all-important US market.
Starting with Cavallo, Argentina’s boosters argue that these problems are transitory, and blame the country’s difficulties on turmoil in world financial markets and the US dollar’s excessive strength in relation to the Euro, which reduces Argentina’s export
competitiveness.
Brazil’s devaluation in 1999 also undermined export
competitiveness.
For a while, booming or overheating real-estate markets and a thriving, but oversized banking sector can disguise a gradual loss of
competitiveness
and risks to fiscal sustainability, as occurred in the euro area.
The government, unable to print money to bail out the banks or increase export
competitiveness
through currency devaluation, is left with only two options: default or deflation (austerity).
If this trend continues, the EU’s waning influence will inevitably weaken its economic position and reduce its
competitiveness.
As Germany knows from its own experience in the early 2000s, the benefits of supply-side reforms – namely, improved
competitiveness
and higher long-term growth rates – take a long time to emerge.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s government, which began its term this year with an understanding that economic growth will slow sharply, devalued the real in order to shore up the country’s
competitiveness.
The prevailing view in Germany is that post-recession growth can more likely be attributed to structural reforms that increase productivity and bolster
competitiveness.
Southern Europe needs to enhance its
competitiveness
and export more, and has been criticized (not without justification) for failing to do more along these lines.
A cut in policy rates or “quantitative easing” by another name will do nothing to enhance the troubled southern European economies’
competitiveness.
Back
Next
Related words
Growth
Countries
Their
Economic
Would
Which
Productivity
Currency
Economy
Export
International
Global
Other
Labor
While
Costs
Country
Boost
Economies
Policy
