The plan to make Europe more competitive
Growth in Europe has been slowing for decades. Across different measures, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the European Union and America. Europe’s households have paid the price in forgone living standards. On a per-person basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in America as in the EU since 2000.
For most of this period, slowing growth could be seen as an inconvenience but not a calamity. No more. Europe’s population is set to decline and it will have to lean more on productivity to grow. If the EU were to maintain its average productivity-growth rate since 2015, it would only be enough to keep GDP constant until around 2050.… Seguir leyendo »