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In a poor country, capital – whether factories, infrastructure, or schools – is scarce, so the rate of return on new investment is high.
Clearly, Chinese factories can no longer offer dirt-cheap prices.
But many factories have already perished.
Already, according to local officials, the city’s factories have acquired the ability to mass-produce super-thin fibers first designed in Japan.
Half of China’s toy factories went bust by the end of 2008.
The idea is to “capture” the carbon dioxide that is emitted in power plants and other big factories when fossil fuels are burned, thereby preventing it from entering the atmosphere.
It is also true that when we invest our wealth – in Pfizer’s intellectual property, factories in Shenzhen, worldwide distribution networks, or shopping malls in Atlanta – it is not , in fact, at hand.
Factories that had previously used a single centralized power source installed more flexible small electric motors on the shop floor.
For example, Apple’s brand was recently shaken by revelations about brutal workplace conditions at Foxconn factories in China, where most of its iPhones and iPads are assembled.
Similarly, American and European clothing companies have been struggling to contain the reputational damage caused by lethal working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories.
The armed forces operate a parallel economy, with its own mines, farms, and factories, though many soldiers and junior officers still go hungry.
Three-quarters of the potential pickup in productivity could come from “catch-up” improvements, with countries taking steps – modernizing their retail sectors, consolidating automobile production into a smaller number of larger factories, improving health-care efficiency, and reducing food-processing wastage – that have already proven effective elsewhere.
They are apparent in the growing army of child laborers picking vegetables in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley or working at garment factories in Turkey, where a half-million refugees are out of school.
On this view, China has been investing too much, building too many factories, importing too many machines, and constructing too many new homes.
The more factories and machines a country has, and the more it replaces older factories and machines with more up-to-date models, the more productive its labor force is.
A number of studies show that economic growth is linked to investment in machines and factories.
It would thus appear that there is nothing wrong with China continuing to buy new equipment, build new factories, and construct new roads and bridges as fast as its can.
Policymakers shut down energy-intensive factories in the heavy chemical industry, promoted innovation, and took steps to address air and water pollution.
China remains obsessed with investing –construction of factories and infrastructure accounted for 41% of GDP and around half of economic growth in 2005.
Moreover, the country’s continuing high levels of fixed-asset investment make sense – building roads, water pipes, metro systems, telecommunication networks, and electronics factories is what a vast and rapidly modernizing country must do.
They may struggle to find proper nutrition and work long hours in factories and fields until the day they go into labor.
The Industrial Revolution – another major turning point for humankind – brought massive changes in regulations and laws, from the various Factories Acts in the United Kingdom to the implementation of income tax in 1842.
When people recklessly use antibiotics to fight a common cold, when farmers use antibiotics to boost livestock productivity, or when pharmacological factories emit antibiotics into the environment to cut production costs, the bacteria that the drugs are designed to kill become immune.
Moreover, since January, the authorities have required 15,000 factories, including state-owned enterprises, to disclose official data on airborne emissions and water discharge.
For three decades, China underwent massive internal migration to the coastal areas of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai, where export-oriented factories awaited the low-cost labor that enabled them to fuel China’s GDP growth – and a much-touted reduction in global poverty.
Most cases of attempted trafficking do not involve nuclear material; rather, they involve radioactive substances of the type held in hospitals, factories, and other locations all over the world.
The fires in Bangladeshi garment factories have raised new questions about the governance of global supply chains.
He delivered the clean bill of health that Saddam had hoped for when he began hiding his atomic factories and ambitions.
It isn’t called “factory farming” merely because those sheds look like factories.
Heavily indebted Asian enterprises didn’t have the cash to repay their loans, since the loans had been sunk into new factories, real estate, and other long-term ventures.
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