Competitiveness
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To increase competitiveness, improvements were made to the process of issuing permits for economic activity.
Why bother with all that complicated integration involving the Schengen Agreement, a monetary union, and EU regulations, which in the end don’t work properly and only weaken the member states’ global
competitiveness?
This matters, especially for labor-intensive activities (ranging from toy manufacturing to data-entry services), whether by affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (which account for more than half of China’s exports) or by local firms, which are losing
competitiveness
in international markets.
Any part of these production chains can be located wherever it suits the firms’ international
competitiveness
best.
China itself has benefited from today’s open international trade and investment regime, which allows firms to locate production where it is most beneficial for their international
competitiveness
– and is now beginning to shed labor-intensive industries itself.
And Germany’s insistence that non-wage costs be equivalent throughout the EU is less a device for enhancing Germany’s
competitiveness
than for reducing others’.
It is no secret that Europe is in the midst of an internal economic crisis – a result of the euro saddling southern eurozone countries with high inflation prior to the 2008 financial crash, which severely reduced their
competitiveness
within the euro system.
None of this was achieved, as the economy deteriorated under the impact of the fiscal measures, which were not offset by a surge in exports, because wages could not be lowered to gain
competitiveness.
But during this first decade, a key underlying problem emerged as Greece lost
competitiveness
relative to Germany, just as Argentina had lost
competitiveness
to Brazil.
Though the EU has given itself an ambitious
competitiveness
agenda, it has not seriously – or even coherently – sought to follow through on it.
Tax policy has favored debt accumulation by households at the expense of saving, and a significant productivity slowdown is affecting US international
competitiveness.
To be sure, powerful economic forces – including China’s rise, globalization, high inequality, and soaring property prices – have buffeted Hong Kong since 1997, undermining the city’s
competitiveness
and contributing to social discontent.
Together, these policies would reduce sovereign debt, lower interest rates, ameliorate tax pressures, enable countries to increase
competitiveness
with fewer sacrifices to living standards, and provide Europe with a road map to prosperity.
Aside from the eurozone’s design flaws, the pressing items on Europe’s agenda concern competitiveness, jobs, innovation, and technology.
It is often argued that Continental Europe's social and economic model, which seeks to combine
competitiveness
with solidarity, is the glue that binds the European Union together, as well as distinguishing Europe from the American (or Anglo-Saxon) free-market model.
Many emerging economies’ authorities intervene in currency markets to prevent exchange-rate appreciation and a loss of export
competitiveness.
Either way, debt ratios will rise, and the
competitiveness
gap with Germany will widen.
In addition, to narrow the
competitiveness
gap, all members should be able to refinance their existing debt at the same interest rate.
Lost
competitiveness
in the periphery was, in part, an equilibrating movement caused directly by the economic-adjustment process under a common monetary policy.
The SGP's fundamental problem is that it must strike a balance between two contradictory goals: it must retain bite against excessive debt accumulation, yet it must also give governments more maneuvering room to enact structural reforms and restore Europe's
competitiveness.
European leaders waste political energy and capital to meet demanding budget targets, while nothing is done to address the really vital challenges: aging populations, high tax burdens, declining
competitiveness.
A new effort would help Europe to replace its agricultural policy with a research-and-development policy aimed at boosting industrial
competitiveness.
Over time, the persistence of these conditions undermined the
competitiveness
of domestic industry, impeding sales of Brazilian products not only internationally, but also in the robust and growing internal market.
But the government and entrepreneurs are not idly sitting by as
competitiveness
slips.
The exchange rate has been adjusted, and, given international conditions, is relatively stable, underpinning Ukraine’s international
competitiveness.
Draghi sought to talk down the euro exchange rate to improve
competitiveness.
That share fell further, to 9% because of misguided macroeconomic policies, especially during the Reagan era, when deficit spending and overly tight monetary policy caused the dollar to soar, undermining
competitiveness.
The continuing focus is the lack of growth in China -- it has fallen to "only" 7.1% -- along with deflation, the lack of confidence on the part of households who will feel the impact of the formidable restructuring problems in state enterprises, and the loss of international
competitiveness.
In part that reflects an aggressive export strategy in Asia's other economies where the collapse of domestic demand brought about export dumping over and above what comes from increased
competitiveness.
But
competitiveness
is an issue, too.
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