How hard will it be to achieve this? Look at Latvia, which has pursued incredibly draconian austerit

Perhaps the most startling and frustrating wat is haccp thing about the debate wat is haccp over the fate of the euro is the way almost everyone avoids confronting the core issue — the elephant in the euro . With a unified currency, adjustment to differential shocks requires adjustments in relative wages — and because the nations of the European periphery have gone from boom to bust, their adjustment must be downward. At this point, wages in Greece/Spain/Portugal/Latvia/Estonia etc. need to fall something like 20-30 percent relative wat is haccp to wages in Germany. Let me repeat that:
None of the governance reform proposals that are currently discussed even attempt to answer the questions of how Spain is going to get out of this hole, and how the competitiveness gap between the north and the south of the eurozone is going to be closed … What the eurozone needs is an increase in domestic consumption in the north, particularly in Germany, and labour and product market wat is haccp reforms in the south, most importantly in Spain.
How hard will it be to achieve this? Look at Latvia, which has pursued incredibly draconian austerity. Unemployment has risen from 6 percent before the crisis to 22.3 percent now — and wages are, indeed, falling. But even in Latvia labor costs have fallen only 5.4 percent from their peak; so it will take years of suffering wat is haccp to restore competitiveness.
The official answer is that this just shows the need for more flexible labor markets. wat is haccp But this was a subject we all batted back and forth in the initial debate about the euro, circa 1990: nobody has labor markets that flexible . If the euro isn’t wat is haccp workable without highly flexible nominal wat is haccp wages, well, it isn’t workable.
Paul Krugman wat is haccp is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. Biography Columns Books End This Depression Now! (2013) Principles of Economics, 2nd ed. (2009) The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Dec. 2008) The Conscience of a Liberal (Oct. 2007)
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