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They have to cut wages, pensions, and other costs in order to achieve the same gain in
competitiveness
needed to substitute external demand for internal demand.
Along with other proposed reforms, the BAT would turn the US corporate income tax into a tax on corporate cash flow (with border adjustment), implying far-reaching consequences for US companies’
competitiveness
and profitability.
Economic theory suggests that, in principle, a BAT could push up the value of the dollar by as much as the tax, thereby nullifying its effects on the relative
competitiveness
of imports and exports.
Instead, Europe will have to rely on wage flexibility to enhance the
competitiveness
of its depressed regions.
But the simple fact is that adopting the English language is vital to the long-term
competitiveness
of Japanese business.
And the dollar has appreciated against most currencies, undercutting US exporters’ competitiveness, again in line with theory.
Africa’s shift toward regional integration encourages
competitiveness
by distributing more effectively production factors – such as inputs and equipment – and by allowing greater labor mobility.
By the late 1990's, the political scene almost everywhere came to be dominated by the desire to combine
competitiveness
and growth-induced wealth creation on the one hand with solidarity, justice, and social cohesion on the other.
After China’s trade surplus peaked at 9% of GDP in 2007, it adjusted to the receding price competitiveness: it has been less than half that level each year since 2010.
Wage
competitiveness
has long been a catalyst for successful industrialization.
First, with the current raw materials bonanza driving up prices of exported goods, the region is increasingly vulnerable to the so-called “Dutch disease,” whereby higher wages and prices spread throughout the economy, weakening competitiveness, particularly in industrial markets.
If no adequate provisions are made to sustain global competitiveness, the economic, social, and political consequences could be dire.
From German cars to French luxury goods, European industrial
competitiveness
should not be underestimated.
The answer lies in the increased
competitiveness
of Chinese producers.
The
competitiveness
gap between China and the OECD countries is closing much faster than the regulatory environment is converging.
The increasing international
competitiveness
of Chinese firms, together with government policy, has been the main driver of China’s skyrocketing outward FDI.
Like competitors elsewhere, they need to invest abroad to acquire a portfolio of local assets that give then better access to the markets, skills, technology, and natural resources that they need to protect and strengthen their international
competitiveness.
For the Club Med members of the euro zone – Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal – public-debt problems come on top of a loss of international
competitiveness.
The euro’s recent sharp rise has made this
competitiveness
problem even more severe, reducing growth further and making fiscal imbalances even larger.
Everyone is aware of what needs to be done: find a new compromise within the currency union between the stubborn German-led focus on austerity and the Mediterranean countries’ need for increased spending to restore growth and boost
competitiveness.
The weaker exchange rate has helped UK-based exporters’
competitiveness.
But is preserving the “one-size-fits-all” euro really worth sacrificing the eurozone’s
competitiveness
and, ultimately, European solidarity?
It was the single market’s establishment in 1992 – not the euro’s introduction seven years later – that brought free trade, increased competitiveness, and new wealth to Europe.
As a result, France’s
competitiveness
is deteriorating.
Learning-by-doing, in turn, increases
competitiveness
and spurs economic growth, thereby improving investors’ expectations – and inducing further investment.
That is why a more expansionary fiscal stance is also vital, with Germany leading the way in deploying increased public investment to “crowd in” private investment and boost
competitiveness.
Throughout his campaign Macron told the French what some of them probably did not want to hear: that France has lost competitiveness, that its industries no longer lead the globe, and that the French will have to acquire new skills, innovate more, and open their economy more – not less – to the world in order to prosper.
But his opponents’ dismal approval ratings grant him the power of brinkmanship, and the growth and
competitiveness
agenda that Italy and Europe crave require him to command political center-stage for whatever time he has left in office.
This would undermine other economic sectors’
competitiveness
and stifle export-oriented manufacturing growth, thereby stalling these economies’ structural transformation.
That will require restoring and creating
competitiveness
in an expanded set of value-added components in the tradable sector.
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