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Microfinance can also help SMEs transition to low-carbon business models, by financing their efforts to adopt renewable energy sources and shift to sustainable production and supply chains.
In a defiant speech delivered at the high-profile China Development Forum on September 16, he proposed withholding exports of goods that American companies need, thereby severely disrupting US supply chains for 3-5 years, at least.
If they do not break their intellectual chains, they will secure for themselves nothing but more misery.
By identifying and investing in those parts of agricultural value chains where young people can contribute, African leaders can create decent formal job opportunities in, say, light manufacturing for relatively low-skill workers.
South America is outside the world’s main value chains.
The TPP could help change this by easing trade in intermediate inputs and helping build Pacific-wide value chains.
Getting to zero would be relatively easy, and it would send a powerful signal that there will be no tit-for-tat escalation, that global supply chains will not be disrupted, and that the global economy is secure.
Plastic pollution – including pellets and micro plastics that enter food chains and can endanger human health – is a growing problem.
While a DNA-based diagnostic test provides more accurate results, the methods currently used rely on expensive equipment like thermal cyclers and functioning cold chains.
Courtesy of what the University of Geneva’s Richard Baldwin calls the “second unbundling” of globalization, the world is awash in the excess supply of increasingly fragmented global supply chains.
Outsourcing via these supply chains dramatically expands the elasticity of the global supply curve, fundamentally altering the concept of slack in labor and product markets, as well as the pressure such slack might put on inflation.
Today, production is carried out not just by individuals, or even by teams of people within firms, but also by teams of firms, or value chains.
For more conventional value chains, the surplus tends to go to the inputs that have greater market power.
Similarly, AI offers countless opportunities for innovation and tapping into global value chains.
And data-driven agriculture supply chains will move them more effectively to the market.
Banks, airlines, credit card companies, social media firms, hotel chains, social clubs, and other organizations should participate as well, to avoid being perceived as profiting from serving such criminals.
Any part of these production chains can be located wherever it suits the firms’ international competitiveness best.
But poverty, creaking supply chains, rampant food waste, and badly formulated, poorly executed policies, such as rigid subsidies for grain farmers, prevent millions from receiving their share.
What is happening is that globalization has split up value chains, allowing trade to move from words to syllables.
Participating in global value chains is an alternative way to learn by doing that is potentially more powerful than closing markets to foreign competition.
At the same time, Japan’s trifecta of calamities – the massive earthquake, devastating tsunami, and paralyzing nuclear disaster – have gutted consumer confidence and disrupted cross-border production chains (especially in technology and car factories).
And this commitment was part and parcel of hemispheric solidarity: “To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge – to convert our good words into good deeds – in a new alliance for progress – to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.”
And yet employment still lags, owing to longer-term factors like labor-saving technology and reconfigurations of global supply chains, in which lower-value-added segments and functions tend to be concentrated in lower-income countries.
The speed of structural adjustment is also strongly influenced by how easily employment can shift from an economy’s non-tradable to its tradable side and across segments of global supply chains.
But the first area to be struck by deep fragmentation would be global supply chains.
In the short term, such a wave of relocations – China stands at the center of global manufacturing chains – would be hugely disruptive.
The fragmented supply chains that emerge would be much less efficient, as no single country can match China in terms of infrastructure, the industrial base, or the size and skill of the labor force.
This means that left-wing populists are inevitably compelled to compete with right-wing populists for the support of exactly the same groups that turned to fascism between the wars: young unemployed males, the “small man” who feels threatened by the “oligarchy” of bankers, global supply chains, corrupt politicians, remote European Union bureaucrats, and “fat cats” of all kinds.
Similar lessons were learned with respect to global supply chains, following the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan in 2011.
Global supply chains are now becoming more resilient, owing to the duplication of singular bottlenecks that can bring much larger systems down.
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