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It came out that way because, for most of the period, the advanced countries benefited from market-driven innovation, while the emerging economies imported knowledge, exported goods and services, and had limited systemic impact on advanced economies.
First, wages will be spent partly on imported goods.
But many of the goods imported into the US actually contain intermediate inputs that were originally produced domestically (this is even more the case for China).
Illegally imported luxury cars in Vietnam are only a small part of the corruption scourge in Asia.
So one of the main lessons of the crisis is that accumulating reserves shelters an economy from imported crises, thereby permitting governments to implement counter-cyclical policies.
This caused output to plummet over 30% (owing to the cut in imported inputs), triggered 700% inflation, and led quickly to widespread shortages of essentials.
But the lives of women in Western and Eastern Europe are far too different for Western feminist notions to be imported whole.
China’s manufacturing boom is fuelled by imported minerals, such as iron ore and chromium, which southern Africa possesses in abundance.
During the campaign, Trump said that he would be prepared to impose significant and comprehensive tariffs on imported goods.
By diverting US demand away from Chinese trade, the costs of imported goods would undoubtedly rise sharply.
Harley-Davidson recently announced that it would move some of its operations to jurisdictions not subject to the European Union’s retaliatory measures adopted in response to Trump’s tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.
The Changing Face of Energy SecurityFor three decades, the rich world has talked about curbing its addiction to imported oil.
Notwithstanding politicians’ repeated calls for energy independence, over the past 30 years the United States, for example, has doubled its dependence on imported oil, which now accounts for nearly two-thirds of its oil needs.
But by the 1973 Yom Kippur war, the Arab oil embargo had a greater effect, owing to America’s growing demand for imported oil.
Measures that some legislators favor, such as transforming coal into liquids, increase secure supplies, but they imply more carbon dioxide emissions than imported oil does.
According to some estimates, the jobs that service an imported consumer good account for more than half of its retail price.
The trade war has hurt Ukraine more; but Russia, too, has lost a significant export market and a major source of imported military equipment.
Once Russia’s most important energy customer, Ukraine has not imported any natural gas from Russia since November 2015.
There really is no clear roadmap for such a huge energy transformation, and Germany almost surely will need to rely on a European-wide electricity grid to share clean energy, and eventually on imported solar power from North Africa and the Middle East.
For their own political reasons, the British put the Sunni Arabs – never more than 25% of the population – in control of the whole country, and even imported a Sunni Arab Hashemite prince to rule over their creation.
The air of Czechoslovakia in 1968 was electric with the imported sounds of the Rolling Stones and Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention.
The imported racist ideology that promoted hatred and enabled genocide was a toxin deliberately injected into Rwanda’s bloodstream.
Petroleum independent until 1993, China now consumes more and more imported petroleum every year, and power consumption is predicted to double by 2025, requiring an average of one new coal-fired plant to come on line each week.
An increase in VAT raises the price of imported goods, as foreign firms face a higher tax.
Young women in five-inch heels and revealing clothing prowled for wealthy men – or were imported by them to decorate boats and premiere parties.
Any boost to competitiveness, for example, is likely to be small and brief, as over 50% of China's exports are part of re-export industries using a great deal of imported materials or semi-finished goods.
A devalued currency would increase exports and would cause Greek households and firms to substitute domestic products for imported goods.
Never mind that industrial policies are a time-tested strategy for developing countries seeking to avoid the dreaded middle-income trap by shifting from imported to indigenous innovation.
One study found that for every dollar equivalent of tariffs India imposed on imported ICT products it suffered an economic loss of $1.30 from lower productivity.
Without implementation of the package, slightly more than half of Europe’s energy needs would be met by imported fossil fuel by 2020, compared to 50% today.
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