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That led to an investment slowdown in many related industries, such as construction materials, furniture, and appliances, causing annual growth in fixed-asset investment to fall from 25.6% to 20.4%.
A Better Way from ‘R’ to ‘D’BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON – When business leaders get together to talk about innovating their industries, they typically focus on initiatives like improving government funding for basic research, or building technology hubs and incubators.
If and when the natural resource generating the windfall wealth (in this case, oil and gas) disappears, the economy is left with too few competitive industries and too many empty bookstore-cafes.
Domestic industries that face foreign competition are beginning to close down or relocate abroad.
Any government effort to sustain dying industries or to allocate investment by picking all sorts of "innovative" projects will be a recipe for economic disaster.
Southern eurozone countries such as Italy and Spain have suffered from rising competition with China in textiles and light manufacturing industries.
The proponents of markets are right that incentives matter, but inappropriate incentives do not create real wealth in the economy, only a massive misallocation of resources of the sort we see now in such industries as telecoms.
A more important explanation for Germany’s current economic success may be the substantial government support that German industries receive on a structural basis, especially the car industry.
Surely, higher education will eventually be hit by the same kind of sweeping wave of technology that has flattened the automobile and media industries, among others.
But there are many similar examples of legal uncertainty threatening to undermine innovation and investment across a range of technologies and industries, including chemicals, consumer products, crop protection, electronics, nutrition, and pharmaceuticals.
This is a shocking lapse on two counts: first, the US and the world are losing time on decarbonization; and, second, the US is squandering the chance to develop its own future high-tech industries.
A year ago, there was an encouraging breakthrough on the investment treaty; this year, there was a setback, as the launch of explicit negotiations over which industries would be exempt – the always contentious “negative list” – was deferred until 2015.
Yet overregulation, heavy bureaucratic burdens, policy uncertainty, poor digital and transport infrastructure, and, in some industries, a lack of skilled workers, are currently impeding investment by companies in new and existing capacity.
So long as they control the country’s industries and natural resources, they will maintain their grip on power – the approach perfected by their role model, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Often, the authorities’ motive seems to be to give domestic industries a leg up in global competition.
Market-share considerations are zero-sum from a global standpoint in traditional industries, and any resources invested in generating national gains come at the cost of global losses.
But in the context of green growth, national efforts to boost domestic green industries can be globally desirable, even if the motives are parochial and commercial.
When cross-border spillovers militate against taxing carbon and subsidizing technological development in clean industries, boosting green industries for competitive reasons is a good thing, not a bad thing.
The first is that governments do not have the information needed to make the right choices about which firms or industries to support.
Green industrial policy can be damaging when national strategies take the form not of subsidizing domestic industries but of taxing foreign green industries or restricting their market access.
Trade restrictions have so far played a small role relative to subsidies to domestic industries.
But in agreeing to open regional economies to imports, poor and developing countries must be allowed some means to protect their new industries.
Finally, after welcoming foreign investment, which contributed greatly to Chinese manufacturing growth and export competitiveness, some in China would now tighten restrictions on foreign investment to protect China’s domestic industries.
Unless the North Korea standoff escalates critically, he will likely initiate anti-dumping actions against Chinese industries – notably in steel – deemed to be selling their goods below cost; and he will probably launch a broad assault on intellectual-property violations in China.
And energy-intensive industries such as steel and aluminum will also replace fossil fuels with zero-carbon electricity and hydrogen.
By giving an advantage to larger and more developed companies and industries, free-market ideology can actually undermine effective competition.
African countries should take a lesson: in building knowledge economies, they will need to support industries’ maturation, and then rescind protectionist measures, in order to mitigate complacency and spur innovation.
Trump’s protectionist campaign rhetoric may not have been meant literally, but if he fails to deliver any of the trade curbs that he promised, Republicans will suffer a backlash from what is now their core voter constituency, voters in declining industries and regions.
It has benefited many professionals and industries, too, by becoming a new source of pride, funding, and profit.
The EU began life as a cartel of heavy industries determined to manipulate prices and redistribute monopoly profits through a bureaucracy located in Brussels.
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