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A McKinsey report estimates that bringing mobile broadband in the developing world to the levels of the industrial world could add $400 billion annually to global GDP and create more than ten million jobs.
Ordinary Vietnamese, taking matters into their own hands, reacted even more vigorously, by rioting and targeting Chinese industrial investments for attack.
Land-use patterns interweave industrial and residential districts, exposing vulnerable (and growing) populations to a host of negative spillover effects.
Most notably, Jorma Ollila, who had led Nokia’s transition from an industrial conglomerate to a technology giant, was too enamored with the company’s previous success to recognize the change that was needed to sustain its competitiveness.
But Microsoft’s money could not save Nokia; it is not possible to build an industrial ecosystem with money alone.
In the post-1945 period, government finance in rich industrial countries was also overwhelmingly national at first, and the assumptions of 1688 still held.
After all, gene drives have the potential to change the entire business model of industrial agriculture.
But make no mistake: a gene-driven farm would epitomize the industrial approach to agriculture, which has failed the test of sustainability.
Since the price spikes of the 1970’s, US oil consumption per dollar of GDP has fallen by half, which also reflects the general economic shift away from industrial manufacturing to less energy-intensive production.
Because the UK has historically shown far less appetite for industrial subsidies than its trading partners have, it stands to gain from clear international rules on industrial support and anti-subsidy tariffs.
These days it is a growing industrial power which, after six and a half years of high-speed economic liberalization under successive governments of varying political hues, now has the largest middle class in the world, is an ever more enticing lure for foreign direct investment, and is economically stable enough to have escaped the financial storms that have wrecked much of east Asia.
Asian banks had to demand the repayment of loans from industrial borrowers, so that the banks could pay off their own foreign creditors.
The key to solving this deepening crisis is to break the debt-deflation spiral so that Asia’s industrial enterprises can begin to function once again.
First, the industrial enterprises must be relieved of their heavy debt burden.
Behind this shortcoming lay various institutional and market distortions associated with industrial and other modern-sector activities in low-income environments.
And they have made little systematic use of explicit industrial policies that could act as a substitute for undervaluation.
In China, one-third of bonds issued by industrial companies, and 28% of those issued by real-estate companies, are at a higher risk of default.
Corporate defaults are already creeping upward in China; and in Brazil, one-quarter of all corporate bonds at a higher risk of default are in the industrial sector.
By the end of the decade, 706 industrial plants were destroyed.
Predictably, some US industrial lobbies are again complaining that Japan is manipulating its currency, even though the yen’s real depreciation since 2012 has merely reversed the preceding growth-killing real appreciation.
Left-wing parties began to lose – in some countries more quickly than others – their base in the industrial working class.
A default contagion would have brought down the banking systems of all the major industrial countries, and caused the world to relive something like the financial crisis of the Great Depression.
A century later, the Japanese economic miracle had transformed the image of at least a small part of Asia in European eyes into a place of rapid technological and industrial progress.
In the same 1993-2014 period, industrial employment as a share of total employment fell by 8% in the US, 8.5% in Japan, and 9.8% in Germany, but it barely moved in Mexico.
Clearly, the industrial jobs that are missing in the US have also gone missing in Japan and Germany, and those jobs are not in Mexico.
Developed economies’ massive outsourcing of traditional manufacturing, high-tech manufacturing, and even some low-end services has brought exciting opportunities for emerging markets that, like China, have resource and cost advantages, strong market potential, and industrial support capabilities.
This implies the need to upgrade China’s industrial structure, accelerate the formation of human capital, facilitate technological progress, and undertake further institutional reforms.
Generally the causes are these: unpaid wages and pensions; sudden and massive job terminations; and management corruption held responsible for the bankruptcy of industrial enterprises--where discharged workers were secure, enjoying privileges and benefits, since the 1950s.
But inside the industrial core of the world’s rich countries there is already concern about these looming revolutions.
With the nuclear phase-out, for example, Germany can now honor its commitments to combat climate change only by damaging, and perhaps losing, part of its industrial base.
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