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Venice remains the world’s largest economy and leading trade power, enjoying a secure position at the top of global value chains.
A global trade war would undermine economic recovery, hurting businesses and consumers by encumbering global supply chains and raising prices for imported goods.
The July 5 protest reminded us of the 3,000 kidnappings since the start of this four-decade conflict, but Colombians could form human chains and release white balloons for many other reasons.
Large corporations have resources, lobbying power, advertising budgets, networks, and supply chains of which the UN can only dream.
“America first” – whether it comes at the expense of China or via the so-called border-tax equalization that appears to be a central feature of proposed corporate tax reforms – will unwind many of the efficiencies of global supply chains that hold down consumer-goods prices in the US (think Wal-Mart).
China’s leaders recognize that, after decades of globalization, countries are too deeply intertwined, through both supply chains and knowledge networks, to go it alone.
Together, these parties should take a binary approach, addressing both “hardware” factors (which remain constant, such as physical distance to treatment centers and elongated supply chains) and “software” factors (the intangibles that vary greatly in each region, such as the role of family and cultural beliefs).
Foshan has more than 30 specialized market towns with sophisticated industrial clusters and local supply chains linked to international markets.
Trump desperately wants to bolster US manufacturing by repatriating global supply chains and blocking or curbing imports.
Today, these transportation systems are far more advanced – augmented by the Internet and its enhancement of global supply chains.
But – and herein lies the third key trend – the Gulf economies are now undergoing an upgrade, ascending various industrial value chains.
What leaders – both within and outside the region – can do is pursue large-scale and intelligent investments in primary and secondary education, small and medium-size businesses (which form the backbone of Arab economies), and renewable energy sources (which could underpin the upgrading of regional value chains).
For example, segmented production for global supply chains has stimulated trade in intermediate goods and promoted foreign direct investment.
The other engine of world trade has been global supply chains.
For starters, tariffs on solar panels and washing machines are hopelessly out of step with transformative shifts in the global supply chains of both industries.
But trade patterns have changed so much since the 1980s, particularly owing to the emergence of regional and global supply chains, that the very notion of a bilateral trade imbalance – one of the main sticking points for Trump – seems outdated.
Yet China remains in a low position on global value chains, despite recent improvements.
With eurozone exports increasingly reliant on global supply chains, a cheaper currency provides less of a boost than before.
Japan’s somewhat fragile recovery could be derailed by an escalation of its territorial conflict with China, which is both a major market for Japanese goods and deeply integrated into Japanese firms’ supply chains.
The administration is restricting inward/outward investment and technology transfers, which will disrupt supply chains.
Companies have a clear stake in low-carbon infrastructure, as climate change poses substantial risks for global supply chains.
To this end, local governments are also helping entrepreneurs gain access to global production chains.
The history of proliferation shows that political chain reactions often occur – witness China, India, and Pakistan – and there are real fears that North Korea and Iran might trigger such chains in Northeast Asia and the Middle East.
Labor’s Digital DisplacementMILAN – Digital technologies are once again transforming global value chains and, with them, the structure of the global economy.
Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times.
With only a slight lag, complexity became manageable, and global supply chains’ linear model (something produced in country A is consumed in country B) gave way to a more complex model with more fragmented but more efficient supply networks.
In some sense, this represents the ultimate compression of supply chains, as firms produce to final demand with minimal delay.
Labor markets have been knocked out of equilibrium as new technology and shifting global supply chains have caused demand in the labor market to change faster than supply can adjust.
With childhood immunization come supply chains, cold storage, trained health-care staff, medical record keeping, data monitoring, disease surveillance, and much more.
A key question has been the disaster’s impact on global supply chains.
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