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Comparative advantage certainly influences long-term economic welfare, but demand conditions will determine whether China or America feels more pressure to sue for trade peace in the next few months.
One was to adopt the principles of Western capitalism, allow foreign capital to flow in, and exploit the comparative advantage of cheap local labor resources to find a niche in the emerging globalized economy.
For America and Europe, the need for labor to move out of manufacturing is compounded by shifting comparative advantage: not only is the total number of manufacturing jobs limited globally, but a smaller share of those jobs will be local.
Constant shifts in comparative advantages, economies of scale, and transaction costs affect the benefits of accommodating more homogeneous localized preferences.
“Industrial policy 2.0” assumes that the state does have a legitimate role in spurring industrialization, as long as it focuses on reinforcing comparative advantages.
Beneath the surface, numerous problems were festering: growing inequality; an unmet need for structural reform (moving from a manufacturing-based economy to services and adapting to changing global comparative advantages); persistent global imbalances; and a financial system more attuned to speculating than to making investments that would create jobs, increase productivity, and redeploy surpluses to maximize social returns.
The bottom line is that natural chemicals are just as likely as synthetic versions to test positive in animal cancer studies, and “at the low doses of most human exposures, the comparative hazards of synthetic pesticide residues are insignificant.”
India’s comparative advantage lies in relatively skill-intensive services – such as information technology – which can absorb no more than a tiny slice of the country’s largely unskilled labor force.
The rich effectively close their markets to many goods that represent the comparative advantage of the poor.
Free trade enables countries to capitalize on their comparative advantages, boosting all participants’ economic performance and prospects.
Performance-based incentives facilitated the continuous upgrading of South Korea’s comparative advantage in global markets.
Though London already had a major comparative advantage as a global financial center, Britain’s EU membership boosted its standing considerably, by enabling it to gain secure access to the eurozone’s financial infrastructure.
It is my hope that China’s comparative advantage as a low-wage producer does disappear – the sooner the better.
Arguably the most damaging is to stick to a successful growth strategy (a combination of comparative advantage and supportive policies) for too long.
In the economy’s tradable sector, comparative advantage always shifts, causing structural change and creative destruction.
But, while that might play well politically, the sensible conclusion is that this is not just a cyclical recovery, but rather the beginning of a delayed process of structural adaptation to a rapidly shifting global economy, to emerging economies’ growth and shifting comparative advantage, and to powerful technological forces.
To realize its potential growth as a latecomer, China needs, above all, to deepen its market-oriented reforms, address various structural problems, and develop its economy according to its comparative advantages.
The comparative docility of infectious diseases like smallpox has contributed to a degree of complacency about the magnitude of the risks of refusing vaccination.
Globalization of trade enabled countries to tap the efficiency gains that specialization in their sectors of comparative advantage has brought about.
Free and open conditions for international trade are the most efficient way to allocate global resources, fully exploiting individual countries’ comparative advantages.
Several developing countries have a comparative advantage in producing ethanol – and other biofuels, for that matter.
It is a world in which monotheistic rivalries will be diluted in an ocean of polytheist faiths, and in which Israel will be able to depend only on its comparative merits in the eyes of cynical, realistic actors who will judge it solely on the basis of their own national interests.
A recently launched initiative, called the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER), collects and shares comparative data on educational policies and institutions from countries around the world.
There has been surprisingly little comparative analysis of the effects of quantitative easing (QE) in Japan, the US, and Britain.
Despite China’s lack of a comparative advantage for steel production, it has built approximately one thousand mills, with output accounting for roughly half of the global total.
In 1967, researchers produced a genetic tree of a score of animals and fungi that had virtually the same branching order as would have been drawn by a classical biologist, even though their computer was utterly ignorant of the comparative anatomy, paleontology, embryology, and other non-molecular attributes of these creatures.
This is all the more remarkable because, by concentrating only on blacks, the clinical trials now under way can have little or nothing compelling to say about comparative results according to supposed racial differences between humans.
The new digital landscape is still taking shape, and countries have an opportunity to redefine their comparative advantages.
In this context, looking north is essential if we want to regain our universal attractiveness and defend our “democratic” comparative advantages.
"But your agricultural subsidy programs block us from establishing any sort of comparative advantage in most agricultural products.
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