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Most important, the barriers to making goods and services in Mauritius, Mozambique, or Mauritania and selling them in New York or Berlin, Santiago or Tokyo are dropping swiftly.
New middle classes are emerging globally, and magazines like Cosmopolitan and Vogue are targeting newly middle-class women in India and China – many of them part of a generation with its own disposable income for the first time ever in their family histories – with the very same luxury goods.
Whether Trump slaps a tariff on Chinese goods, repudiates the North American Free Trade Agreement, packs the Federal Reserve Board, or undermines fiscal sustainability remains to be seen.
And if political scandals were export goods, Brazil would have a clear comparative advantage.
When you hold a checking or current account in your bank at a zero interest rate – as most people do in advanced economies – the real return is negative (the nominal zero return minus inflation): a year from now, your cash balances buy you less goods than they do today.
At a recent Eurasian Economic Commission session in Sochi, Belarus and Kazakhstan rejected the Kremlin’s proposal to introduce customs duties for goods imported from Ukraine if the country signed the EU association agreement.
The Belarusian government considers it to be Ukraine’s sovereign right to sign agreements with the EU – a flat contradiction of Russia’s stance – and appears likely to introduce customs fees of its own for electronic goods imported from Russia.
CAMBRIDGE – New technologies reduce the prices of goods and services to which they are applied.
After all, no economy can raise living standards forever through innovations that make production of existing goods more efficient.
Similarly, outsourcing to low-wage countries improves living standards only if the human capital released can be used to make new goods and services.
For many advanced countries, expansion of markets for new goods and services facilitates - and has been facilitated by - imports from low-wage countries.
More than half of all manufactured goods consumed in the US are made abroad, particularly low technology, mass-produced labor-intensive products.
The problem, of course, is that producers of new goods and services do not create jobs at exactly the same rate as efficiency gains or imports reduce the demand for labor.
Following the Internet boom of the late 1990's, job creation slowed, while efficiency improvements continued to reduce the labor required by the "old" goods and services.
A Chinese worker simply cannot buy the same goods and services as a worker in the EU, and workers in low-wage countries spend only a small portion of their incomes on EU products.
At the international level, the standing of US-supplied public goods (including the dollar as the global reserve currency) faces gradual erosion.
They include the authority to impose taxes and restraints on individuals and private entities through criminal, administrative, and civil law, as well as the state’s obligation to provide public goods and services.
This question has long framed public debate about alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and other goods and services in many countries worldwide.
Thus "aid" is often a marketing device for low-priority goods from the rich-countries.
Moreover, Japan leads the world in the technologies that can enable older people to remain economically active longer, and in the robotics that allow goods and services to be produced by ever fewer workers.
How do we arrive at social valuations of public goods such as the natural environment?
The crisis in agriculture led to a decrease in demand for urban goods and thus to an economy-wide downturn.
In the Anthropocene, GDP must be part of an array of metrics for assessing economic, natural, and social capital – that is, the value of the goods and services produced, as well as the dignity of the ecosystems and social structures that underpin this output.
It is time to bring back the comprehensive thinking of 1944-1945, which emphasized collective goods over narrow interests.
In return, these relationships have facilitated the exchange of information and goods, diversified diets, strengthened farming techniques, and guarded against hunger.
So transatlantic coordination is needed, to ensure that any trade of sophisticated arms and weapons-related technologies with China does nothing to enhance China’s military power, and that competition between Western producers of goods that may legitimately be sold to China does not damage Western political unity.
When exporters are asked to rank their products relative to a market average, 40% of German exporters classify their goods as top quality, while only 10% of French exporters do so.
Decentralized management has helped German exporters triple their share of the global market for top-quality goods compared to those firms that did not reorganize.
French and Italian exporters that introduced decentralized management did not increase their share of the global market for top-quality goods.
But even if supply-side growth were maintained, say, by China, thereby holding down prices of tradable goods, helicopter money would carry major costs, because debt would still be growing faster than nominal GDP.
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