Jean Pisani-Ferry, director of the economic research group Bruegel in Brussels, argues that by better coordinating economic policies, Europe can overcome the growing gap in competitiveness between wealthy North European states and the rest of the currency area.
The chasm between the number of job openings in today's digital economy and the number of skilled workers available is growing in the wrong direction and threatening the competitiveness of the U.S. economy.
Geldof, who netted around £500,000 from the sale, agreed to stay on as the face of the company but it has faded from view as the online travel market has grown in size and competitiveness.
Transportation investment continues to grow in aid of economic competitiveness and environmental sustainability worldwide, but limited empirical research has been conducted on the changing value of highway investment in deindustrializing economies.
An important factor in the growing gap in industrial competitiveness between France and Germany, said a recent study by Coe-Rexecode, an economic-research centre, is that German bosses and employees are better than French ones at working together.
And it turns out that the most efficient of today's solar panels do indeed match the retail price of electricity in some parts of the world with high retail prices, such as Japan (which is now phasing out its solar subsidies).Renewables' growing competitiveness is not, in short, simply the result of sky-high oil prices.
PV's growing competitiveness holds just as true in regions where indigenous fossil fuels are abundant.
The president asserted a widely held truth, that developing more science and engineering talent "will foster home-grown innovation, help ensure the competitiveness of U.S. technology-based businesses, and ensure that 21st century jobs can and will grow in America.
The global industry is currently facing a growing increase in the competitiveness that forces companies to adopt and develop new strategies and methods of production.
And they point out that Italy is not the only country in the euro-area to have a growing problem with competitiveness.
