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Low paid jobs, which is where low skilled labor goes, are plentiful in the US and are
concentrated
in trade and services.
This means that productivity growth has not only been
concentrated
within a narrow set of firms, but also that productivity and market labor income have decoupled.
Moreover, debt-fueled investment has been
concentrated
in highly cyclical natural-resources-based sectors that do not contribute to inclusive and sustainable growth.
Not only is VC investment
concentrated
in a small part of the country; it has recently tended to support the expansion of later-stage investments, rather than the launch of startups.
For example, US textile production, once heavily
concentrated
in New England, shifted mainly to the South (before relocating to Asia and other lower-cost locales).
Colonial political economy also
concentrated
“development” in resource-rich areas, while neglecting resource-poor regions and their populations, which in many cases were Muslim.
In most industrialized countries, employment is
concentrated
in a narrow age range, so a decline in the labor force will cause a decline in production – and make us less well off.
Moreover, contrary to popular belief, much of the dramatic poverty reduction in China over the last three decades was due not to integration into the global economy, but to domestic factors like growth in the agricultural sector (where mass poverty was concentrated).
It is ironic that, at a time when many in the developing world are entering, or aspire to enter, the emerging middle class, wealth in much of the developed world is becoming more
concentrated
at the top.
Instead, President Richard Nixon
concentrated
on intimidating Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi into staying out.
In countries where trade and investment is
concentrated
in ties with the US, this is a central issue in the bilateral relationship.
While individual countries show different levels of inequality, its rise has been evident almost everywhere, with income and wealth increasingly
concentrated
at the very top.
US participants represent a country at war in which energies are
concentrated
on defeating the enemy, "terrorism," whether of the Al Queda or Iraqi variety.
So long as Japan was playing catch-up with the West, and government and industrial resources were
concentrated
on economic growth, the system worked quite well.
And all of the cases were
concentrated
in just two countries, 54 in Pakistan and 20 in Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, polio is
concentrated
in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the northwest of the country, where the Taliban are strongest.
In the general election on March 4, support for the two parties that have just formed a government– the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League party (formerly the Northern League) – was
concentrated
in southern and northern Italy, respectively.
The no vote was
concentrated
in Turkey’s economic hubs, such as its western and southern coastal region, and the predominantly Kurdish southeast, as well as in its two largest cities, Istanbul and the capital, Ankara.
And “personality overburdening” – when trust in the success of monetary policy is
concentrated
on the person at the helm of the institution – means that individual leaders’ reputations are likely to suffer as well.
Many financial institutions that received government funds have
concentrated
on their respective home markets and scaled back their activities abroad.
Businesses and government were inward looking, with sales
concentrated
in home markets.
Both considerations support
concentrated
ownership and work against securities markets.
Indeed, while the returns from China’s Internet retailing revolution have been highly concentrated, for once this concentration has not been in the state sector.
The staff “saw” the relaxation of lending standards in the US mortgage market, but noted that “borrowers at risk of significant mortgage payment increases remained a small minority,
concentrated
mostly among higher-income households that were aware of the attendant risks.”
A friend once said that politics is "the sum of all things concentrated."
Moreover, throughout NAFTA's lifetime income and wealth have been further
concentrated
within the elite sectors of US and Canadian society.
The authors conclude that France's commitment to universal rights is belied by deepening discrimination against immigrants, "who have been ostracized and
concentrated
in bad schools, poor neighborhoods, positions without job security, and fake job training."
But this short-run fall in the price of oil should not let us lose sight of the long-term political problem; namely the fact that the major part of the present oil production is
concentrated
in countries governed by autocracies which use oil resources to maintain repressive patronage regimes, finance extravagant consumption by the elites, and acquire a terrifying amount of arms.
The problem is that production nowadays is
concentrated
in an area that is politically and economically unstable.
And, by now, with the recovery
concentrated
among the rich as well, the top 1% of Americans are highly likely to be approaching a cumulative 300% gain since 1979.
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