In addition, to narrow the competitiveness gap, all members should be able to refinance their existing debt at the same interest rate.

It provoked the missile gap.

Closing the Skills Gap

As these countries posted current account deficits, northern European countries accumulated current account surpluses, exposing a widening competitiveness gap.

Moreover, it is clear that northern European countries could help to close the competitiveness gap more rapidly by encouraging faster wage growth.

First, the eurozone authorities misread the real causes of the debt crisis, which stemmed mainly from a growing competitiveness gap between the core and periphery countries.

Asia s Leadership Gap

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

However, there is a large financing gap.

These may be quite large, such as Oregon s Devil s Punchbowl or the Queen s Bath on the Na Pali coast.

Inequality has been falling.

Income and wealth inequalities worsened.

There's a hole at the front, and there's a reason for that.

In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

The eurozone s cohesion and future growth depend critically on creating a framework through grants and loans for investment capital to flow to the poorer countries in order to close the competitiveness gap.

The divide is physical, not just mental.

And so it has remained budgets are cut, growth falters, and periphery countries must engineer substantial real exchange rate devaluations to regain competitiveness and close their external deficits.

Differences among the eurozone countries in growth rates of productivity and wages will continue to cause disparities in international competitiveness, resulting in trade and current account imbalances.

How the Fed Just Reduced Inequality

There's no gap between rich and poor any longer. This is a myth.

That is an extraordinary gap in the returns that you can reasonably expect.

However, there exists a breathtaking gap in our scientific knowledge of the resources of sea.

But the OMT scheme has not been reinforced by a reduction in key interest rates, which would boost inflation in core countries with external surpluses and thus help to close the competitiveness gap with the periphery.

Europe s democratic deficit is less a gap between European institutions and European citizens than between national politics and European problems.

But the digital divide is no immutable gap.

Currently, there appears to be a gap in the observed mass distribution of black holes.

The find will help fill in an enormous gap in the history of these creatures.

The establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission will bridge an important institutional gap.

As a result, income inequality in Brazil is declining.

Economic inequality is deeper than ever.

So, will anything prevent inequality from widening?

Nevertheless, a significant gap between policy and practice, however, remains.

In medicine, there is a huge and unbridgeable gap in expertise and information between doctors and patients.

Since 1980, the world has witnessed a widening income gap among developing countries.

Increasingly, citizen journalists and bloggers fill in the void of Israeli mainstream media coverage.

There is also a major funding gap in our national recovery and reconstruction programme.

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

That means breaking down barriers and inequalities, building capacity, and disseminating knowledge.

A nearly unbridgeable mental gap now separates Russians and Caucasian young people.

Calculate a similarity score that is the sum of the joined regions penalising for each gap 20 points.

But there should not be a gap between what society accepted and what its laws asserted.

Moreover, there was still a gap between assessed needs and available funds.

Thus, a slow growth high inequality economy may become a self perpetuating cycle.

As inequality rises, consumption rates generally drop and savings rates generally rise.

A narrowing gap in funding costs could just mean that financial markets recognize this.