Competitiveness
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Since 1998, with the rebound of Asian currencies and the strong Yen, there has been a significant improvement in China's
competitiveness.
A rough number for the loss in China's
competitiveness
in Asia is 10 to 15% -- by no means negligible, but not devastating either.
Even if there is some loss of Chinese competitiveness, devaluation is not the answer.
Much of the trouble is not the loss in
competitiveness
from the recent devaluation of other Asian economies.
Low competitiveness, too, is not an explanation, as real (inflation-adjusted) wage costs have declined by more in Greece in recent years than in any other eurozone country, with the exception of Ireland.
But it would be strange to conclude from Greece’s experience that wage deflation is a useless tool for improving competitiveness, given the widespread assumption that Germany benefited massively from it.
Not only is the public almost entirely ignorant of the EU’s policy agenda for boosting competitiveness, economic growth, and employment, but this ignorance extends to many intellectuals, academics, CEO’s, and even some MP’s.
Indeed, the last Eurobarometer survey on the Lisbon Strategy found that the European public sees little relation between EU policies and economic
competitiveness.
Emulation through excellence is the motor of
competitiveness.
These external imbalances were also driven by the euro’s strength since 2002, and by the divergence in real exchange rates and
competitiveness
within the eurozone.
Moreover, the peripheral countries’ large current-account deficits, fueled as they were by excessive consumption, were accompanied by economic stagnation and loss of
competitiveness.
Symmetrical reflation is the best option for restoring growth and
competitiveness
on the eurozone's periphery while undertaking necessary austerity measures and structural reforms.
If the peripheral countries remain mired in a deflationary trap of high debt, falling output, weak competitiveness, and structural external deficits, eventually they will be tempted by a third option: default and exit from the eurozone.
This would enable them to revive economic growth and
competitiveness
through a depreciation of new national currencies.
Unless the eurozone moves toward greater economic, fiscal, and political integration (on a path consistent with short-term restoration of growth, competitiveness, and debt sustainability, which are needed to resolve unsustainable debt and reduce chronic fiscal and external deficits), recessionary deflation will certainly lead to a disorderly break-up.
This model brings together natural capital accounting, a human-opportunity index, a gender-gap index, measures of public investment as a percentage of GDP, a
competitiveness
index, indicators of shared prosperity, and disaggregated unemployment data.
While individual countries obviously lack currency flexibility in a monetary union – one of Europe’s most obvious and important differences from Asia in the late 1990’s – there is nothing to prevent a depreciation of the euro from boosting pan-regional
competitiveness.
The same medicine might prove equally beneficial to the rest of Europe – to say nothing of the US, which faces a major
competitiveness
challenge of its own.
It was clear that they had become more vulnerable due to loss of competitiveness, weak governance, and lack of transparency.
As wages grew faster than productivity in the run-up to the crisis,
competitiveness
also suffered, and domestic demand became the main engine of growth.
Emerging Europe needs new sources of
competitiveness.
Some countries, like Hungary, have managed to sustain the quality of education, critical for long-term
competitiveness.
They may reflect deeper weaknesses in economic structures, such as a lack of
competitiveness
or institutional shortcomings.
There will also be a decline in
competitiveness.
As the United States and other developed countries pursue “re-industrialization” and the Chinese economy’s low-wage comparative advantage diminishes, China must re-establish its
competitiveness
by positioning itself at the top of the global value chain, which implies the need to promote trade and upgrade its industrial infrastructure.
At the same time, it should preserve a level playing field by explicitly prohibiting rule changes, limiting the establishment of entry and exit barriers in various industries, and using taxation, finance, and brand authentication to cultivate core
competitiveness.
China’s future
competitiveness
also depends on its integration into a new wave of global and regional regulatory regimes.
At this level, China would finally have the domestic value chain that it needs to sustain
competitiveness
and rapid economic growth.
France’s basic problem, like that of the countries most affected by the crisis, is that the wave of cheap credit that the euro’s introduction made possible fueled an inflationary bubble that robbed it of its
competitiveness.
Eurozone politicians tend to believe that it is possible to regain
competitiveness
by carrying out reforms, undertaking infrastructure projects, and improving productivity, but without reducing domestic prices.
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