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On the other hand, the increased cost would be offset to some extent by lower-cost imported inputs, and foreign affiliates could expect to repatriate higher profits from sales in China in terms of their own currencies.
The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm
inputs.
By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary
inputs
on their own.
Poor countries would receive prompt and predictable financing for agricultural
inputs
from a single account, rather than from dozens of distinct and fragmented donors.
This helps explain why the Greek and Argentine governments are perennially in deficit (until borrowing options dry up and adjustment is inevitable), or why prices – and profits – are high in sectors (for example, transportation and telecoms) that provide would-be entrepreneurs with crucial (but often unaffordable)
inputs.
The TPP could help change this by easing trade in intermediate
inputs
and helping build Pacific-wide value chains.
Particularly valuable would be straightening out the spaghetti bowl of “rules of origin” – the regulations dictating when
inputs
produced in other countries can be used in products that will qualify for free-trade benefits.
Commodity prices are soaring worldwide, not only for headline items like food and energy, but for metals, arable land, fresh water, and other crucial
inputs
to growth, because increased demand is pushing up against limited global supplies.
This is possible, however, only if the key growth
inputs
remain in ample supply, and if human-made climate change is counteracted.
If the supply of vital
inputs
is constrained or the climate destabilized, prices will rise sharply, industrial production and consumer spending will fall, and world economic growth will slow, perhaps sharply.
Second, the world economy is vastly larger than in the past, so that demand for key commodities and energy
inputs
is also vastly larger.
Deforestation, growing population pressure, urbanization, soil erosion, over-fishing, and the impact of foreign domination over marketing, inputs, processing, and even farming also play a role.
As skilled labor becomes increasingly expensive relative to unskilled labor, firms and businesses have a greater incentive to find ways to “cheat” by using substitutes for high-price
inputs.
US manufacturers that rely on steel
inputs
are already facing higher costs, and could soon face shortages, with the price of steel in the US having risen 50% above that in China or Europe.
There, Betsey has a pair of, um, endowments that mean that she’s better at
inputs.
Both are related to a similar feature of modern production: the fact that it requires many complementary
inputs.
A shortage of any of these
inputs
can have disastrous effects on productivity.
This complementarity makes many parts of the developing world unsuitable for modern production, because key
inputs
are missing.
To address the problem requires investing in inclusion, endowing people with skills, and connecting them to the
inputs
and networks that can make them productive.
The dilemma is that poor countries lack the means to connect all places to all
inputs.
They are faced with the choice of connecting a few places to most
inputs
and getting high productivity there, or putting some of the
inputs
in all places and getting very little productivity growth everywhere.
The other problem of modern production is how to distribute the income generated by all of the complementary
inputs.
In this context, if markets are characterized by what economists call perfect competition, once the opportunity cost of all
inputs
has been paid, there is nothing left to distribute.
For more conventional value chains, the surplus tends to go to the
inputs
that have greater market power.
Business schools teach their students to capture the maximum surplus in the value chain by focusing on
inputs
that are difficult for others to provide while ensuring that other
inputs
are “commoditized” and hence cannot capture more than their opportunity cost.
This means that policies aimed at ensuring an equitable outcome should rely on either owning or taxing the
inputs
that capture the “team surplus.”
One theory is that voices arise because Broca's area "dumps" language outputs into parts of the brain that ordinarily receive speech
inputs
from the outside.
An apt metaphor is a game of Scrabble: Goods and services are made by stringing together productive capabilities – inputs, technologies, and tasks – just as words are made by putting letters together.
The problem with trade protection is that restricting foreign competition also means preventing access to
inputs
and knowhow.
With expanded meat consumption, soybean production alone would nearly double, implying a proportional increase in the use of
inputs
like land, fertilizer, pesticides, and water.
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