Either way, debt ratios will rise, and the competitiveness gap with Germany will widen.

To maintain price competitiveness, the gap between Greek wage growth and the rise in Greek productivity i.e., output per employee hour must not be greater than the gap in other eurozone countries.

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

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

Furthermore, French competitiveness, and the gap between its performance and that of Germany, is a growing cause of anxiety.

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

The gap is simply too large between what is needed to restore competitiveness and what citizens can stomach if they remain part of the monetary union.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The last thing a crisis weary Europe needs is a new competitiveness gap. But ambitious climate targets, as Germany and other successful European economies have shown, are not the problem.

Political upheaval in any of the southern countries would be sufficient to reignite doubts about the eurozone s future. Furthermore, French competitiveness, and the gap between its performance and that of Germany, is a growing cause of anxiety.

For the alien race in Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Cycle, see Amnion (Gap Cycle).

Yet European competitiveness is in danger.

In the government sector, the unadjusted pay gap is 15 , and the adjusted pay gap was 3 in 2000.

Competitiveness Surveys

What separates developing countries from developed countries is not only the gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

Climate and Competitiveness

Europe s Competitiveness Obsession

The gap in technological capabilities is increasing.

There will also be a decline in competitiveness.

Does OFDI increase competitiveness of firms and how could competitiveness from OFDI be measured?

Asia s Leadership Gap

Mind the Gap

The gender gap in schooling remains a concern.

OFDI and enterprise competitiveness

Enhancing productivity and competitiveness

Enterprise competitiveness and development

Enterprise competitiveness and development

Investment and enterprise competitiveness

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

More troubling, Eurobonds would not eliminate divergences in competitiveness.

seeking activities following an erosion in their export competitiveness.

China recognizes, too, that what separates less developed from more developed countries is not only a gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

Closing Europe s Strategy Gap

Closing Asia s Security Gap

Closing the Skills Gap

The gap filling role

Sometimes there was a gap in the normative framework.

Then the gap is divided by the shrink factor again, the list is sorted with this new gap, and the process repeats until the gap is 1.

But what sort of competitiveness do they have in mind?

As a result, competitiveness in international markets would be reduced.

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