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The problem is that service industries ultimately have to compete for workers in the same national labor pool as sectors with fast productivity growth, such as finance, manufacturing, and information technology.
Even though the pools of workers may be somewhat segmented, there is enough overlap that it forces service-intensive industries to pay higher wages, at least in the long run.
Admittedly, the problem is worse in the government sector, where productivity growth is much slower even than in other service industries.
Although European research has given rise to many new technologies used in industries worldwide, its recent record is wobbly at best, owing mainly to the difficulty in translating basic science into industrial advantage.
Worse, service industries are falling further behind large manufacturers in terms of productivity and wages.
Value-subtracting heavy industries shrunk, services expanded to over 50% of GDP, and the private sector produces almost 60% of Russian output.
The biggest grab was in the oil and gas industries, amounting to tens of billions of dollars.
But the rapid run-up in equity prices also carries considerable risks – namely, the possibility that the financial sector will misuse the newfound liquidity to finance more speculative investment in asset bubbles, while supporting old industries with excess capacity.
But even if Chinese retail investors begin to channel their money toward innovative ventures, identifying the companies and industries most likely to succeed will be difficult.
The sweeping retaliation against unrelated products was intended not only to promote domestic industries, but also to ensure that South Korea lost far more than China did.
Tourism and related industries are booming.
In recent speeches, Kim has emphasized the need for economic reform and opening up to develop agriculture and labor-intensive manufacturing industries.
This has led energy-intensive European industries – including producers of glass, steel, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals – to invest heavily in the US.
It is incumbent on industries that deal with the poor to be transparent about how they earn their money – and to make the case for their activities strongly and publicly.
Hansen, in a 1934 paper, wrote that, “Secular stagnation is caused by the lack of new inventions or new industries”; and, as I show in my book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change, American innovation first began declining or narrowing as far back as the late 1960s.
Although Silicon Valley created new industries and improved the pace of innovation for a short time, it, too, has run up against diminishing returns.
Moreover, the world’s most competitive industries are those with the narrowest earnings gap between women and men.
Anyone familiar with Dubai understands that these are but small examples of a much broader embrace of creativity that has allowed the country to court elite foreign professionals in finance and other industries.
Much as in the United States, elite foreigners have played a key role in developing Dubai’s various service industries.
Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology-intensive industries.
Domestic industries are also hampered by weak productivity growth, inadequate labor-market efficiency, and the gulf between the country’s chaebols (family-owned conglomerates) and smaller firms.
Employment continues to decline in the manufacturing sector and traditional service industries, such as wholesale and retail trade, accommodation, and food service.
The state was to hold the economy's commanding heights through planning, large public investments, and ownership of key industries.
Labor intensive industries were especially hard hit.
These adverse conditions have inadvertently propelled a long-delayed restructuring of China’s labor-intensive industries.
Less fragmented industries also lobby better.
Further, as low-end, low-cost labor jobs morph towards higher-end, higher-cost jobs, China will move not only into more valuable manufactured goods, but also into the service industries, such as design.
When China’s labor-intensive industries emerge from their metamorphosis, we should expect to see firms that are larger, that invest more in product innovation and design, and that hold more sway over business and trade policies.
The world’s “great powers” do not adhere to UN agreements meant to regulate industries that emit greenhouse gases and dump heavy metals in the sea and soil.
They not only hold fast to their nuclear industries; they mismanage those industries’ waste, which can destroy ecosystems, from oceans to forests, while infecting humans with deadly diseases.
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