Sentence examples for lost competitiveness from inspiring English sources

The country has lost competitiveness since joining the euro and has experienced two lost economic decades during which growth has barely risen.

"Our structural growth rate is only 1.9%."One reason, argues Mr Chaney, is that French industry has lost competitiveness within the euro zone, and is ceding market share to freshly competitive German and even Italian firms.

Its firms have lost competitiveness.

Wage cuts are now restoring lost competitiveness.

Both have lost competitiveness since the 1990s.

Stuck in the euro, its economy has lost competitiveness.

Spaniards have accepted changes, including wage cuts, to restore lost competitiveness.

And this meant that Southern farms lost competitiveness to their Northern counterparts.

Many countries need years of austerity and reforms to regain lost competitiveness.

In varying degrees all three lost competitiveness, as measured by unit labour costs compared with Germany's.

But whether by themselves they will be enough to restore lost competitiveness is less clear.