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The way we test Dylan is by giving it inputs, as I said, of the same kind that a baby, or a child in Project Prakash would get.
But for a long time we couldn't quite figure out: Wow can we get these kinds of video
inputs?
So, I thought, could we have Darius serve as our babycam carrier, and that way get the
inputs
that we feed into Dylan?
And I guess one of the questions on everybody's mind is: How does that influence your study of choosing because that's an activity that for most people is associated with visual
inputs
like aesthetics and color and so on?
For instance, they found that incentivizing students for inputs, like effort, worked a lot better than incentivizing for outputs, like test scores.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where three of the four countries on the verge of famine are located, crop yields have long lagged behind the rest of the world, owing to poor farm inputs, such as low-quality seeds and fertilizer.
Likewise, although renminbi appreciation would diminish export growth, the slowdown would probably not be dramatic, given that China’s export sector is dominated by the processing trade (specifically, the assembly of intermediate
inputs
imported from countries like Japan and South Korea).
For example, value-added tax is designed to encourage firms to procure invoices for their
inputs
in order to reduce their own tax outlays.
Often, these limits are not binding, but, once capital deepening is exhausted, technological progress, which makes
inputs
more productive in creating final value, is the long-run driver of growth.
Companies exhibit similar behavior when it comes to acquiring innovative technologies, adhering to ineffective, restrictive processes, despite an ostensibly obvious alternative: the efficient systems that manufacturers use to secure
inputs
for production.
Doing so ensures that producers get exactly what they need, and that suppliers are able to deliver the correct
inputs.
A few US steel and aluminum jobs might be saved, but far more would be lost in industries using those metals as inputs, which employ ten times more workers.
It would pay higher prices for
inputs
and consumer goods, and British firms’ reduced integration into global value chains would undermine productivity.
Developing countries that impose a VAT perversely encourage production to remain in the informal sector, which often produces the goods that are consumed domestically or used as
inputs
in the developed world.
So, without access to US dollars, Europe’s economies could not obtain the
inputs
needed to increase their exports.
These projects are justified by the fact that three-quarters of all international trade is made up of
inputs
that contribute to the production of finished products further down the line.
But modern production requires many
inputs
that markets do not provide.
And, as in the case of airlines, these
inputs
– rules, standards, certifications, infrastructure, schools and training centers, scientific labs, security services, among others – are deeply complementary to the ones that can be procured in markets.
So here’s the question: Who controls the provision of the publicly provided
inputs?
Second, because most exporters also import intermediate
inputs
that are priced in dollars, exchange-rate fluctuations have a limited impact on their costs and thus on their incentive to change dollar prices.
Yes, the bilateral deficit is much higher than even that level; but that is partly because China’s exports to the US contain so many imported
inputs.
But, for many Cubans, the embargo has placed an alternative explanation at hand: Absent the embargo, many goods would be imported from the US, or produced at home with US
inputs.
A stronger renminbi would reduce the import bill, including prices for oil and other production inputs, while making Chinese goods more expensive for foreign buyers and foreign goods more attractive to Chinese consumers.
As for foreign-owned automakers operating in the US, they will almost certainly offshore any facilities that are producing
inputs
destined for foreign markets.
But the form of agriculture that they practice, which relies less on external
inputs
and mechanization, is highly labor-intensive.
During Japan’s economic boom, its total factor productivity (TFP, or the efficiency with which
inputs
are used) contributed about 40% to GDP growth.
(Soviet communism, for all its imported Western inputs, was rooted in the traditional idea of collective property.)
Even as reputable firms ensure the quality of all their inputs, this loophole can allow unsafe products to enter the market, as occurred in 2008, when at least 81 Americans died after receiving doses of the blood thinner heparin that contained adulterated Chinese material.
Africa’s shift toward regional integration encourages competitiveness by distributing more effectively production factors – such as
inputs
and equipment – and by allowing greater labor mobility.
This recent growth has been fueled by a strong boom in commodity prices, including not only energy
inputs
such as oil, gas and coal, but also metals, minerals, and agricultural products.
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