Sentence examples for undermined competitiveness from inspiring English sources

But euro-area governments understand that their high spending and consequent high taxes have undermined competitiveness, and are therefore cutting the state's share of GDP. Britain's politicians, meanwhile, are raising taxes and spending in order to move towards the social-democratic ideal with which other Europeans have become disillusioned.

Membership requires Armenia to introduce high tariffs, which undermine competitiveness and deter foreign investors.

PSI looked at groups such as BusinessEurope, which has argued climate policies will undermine competitiveness, and the European Chemical Council, which argued that strengthening the EU Emissions Trading System would lead to businesses moving overseas for lower energy costs.

Fear of failure suppresses creativity and innovation, which undermines competitiveness.

The Energy Intensive Users Group said it supported the government's efforts to shift to cleaner energy generation "but we need to ensure that in doing so we don't undermine competitiveness of UK manufacturing internationally".

Switzerland is managing outside the EU with a strong industrial base in pharmaceuticals and several other industries, but listening to the voice of Swiss industrialists it is not a free lunch, and the barriers for immigration risk undermining competitiveness in the long run.

Financial inflows to sustain record lending have pushed sterling up for years and undermined the competitiveness of our manufacturing base.

It has everything to do with year after year of steadily rising labour costs and falling productivity, which have undermined Italian competitiveness and exports.

The Treasury Department has increased the difficulties by promoting an excessively "strong dollar" that undermined American competitiveness and has pushed the trade and current-account deficits to record levels of nearly $200 billion.The outcome is thus uncertain as well as pivotal.

India has had more success than China this year in taming inflation, but at the price of a steep rise in the rupee, which has undermined the competitiveness of Indian exports and begun to hurt economic growth.

The inflationary credit bubble spurred in southern European countries by the persistence of lower interest rates undermined their competitiveness and drove asset and property prices to unsustainably high levels.