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For that, England would have to move up the value-added ladder, by importing raw materials and exporting finished goods.
For Russia, moving up the value-added ladder should not be difficult; it has all it needs to manufacture the finished products that it previously imported.
The countries highest on the ladder of life satisfaction are Denmark, Finland, and Norway.
When one looks closely at the careers of judges in the above-mentioned countries, the law can vary, but cooptation is the usual rule of the game: a successful judge or prosecutor, in order to climb the professional ladder, must follow the guidance of his peers and increase the influence of his corporation.
Only the Poor Die YoungROTTERDAM – People who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder (indicated by their level of education, occupation, or income) have shorter and less healthy lives, on average, than those on higher rungs.
In Asia, more women work, they work more hours, and they advance on the corporate ladder much faster than European women.
In these circumstances, if Iran is offered a diplomatic ladder that it can climb down with its dignity intact – above all, a credible promise of an historic reconciliation with the US that includes specific economic benefits, not Obama’s current vague offers – a tired revolution’s troubled leadership might take it.
In fact, even the American poor do not mind inequality, which they see as a social ladder that they can climb.
Does moving up the income ladder get harder the higher one climbs?
South Korea is a prime example of a country that exploited these opportunities to move all the way up the income ladder.
For this to succeed at the global level, middle-income countries that have already started the process must overcome the obstacles on the road to higher income, thereby creating demand and opening supply opportunities for the primary labor transfer in developing countries farther down the income ladder.
Given advanced economies’ poor growth prospects, the world economy’s dynamics nowadays will depend on how successful country-specific steps up the income ladder turn out to be.
The children were asked to rate their “life satisfaction” on an 11-step ladder.
The University of Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang described this phenomenon as rich countries “kicking away the ladder” with which they had climbed to the top.
The growth ladder used by Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, and Vietnam will be kicked away from still-lagging countries in South and Central Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Second, the West needs to understand that there is a global ladder of economic development, the rungs of which represent increasing levels of organizational and technological complexity, and value added per capita.
Developing countries are rapidly moving up the ladder, and are increasingly competing directly with developed economies.
If developed countries can move further up the ladder of economic development by innovating and creating new high-value-added products and services while ceding lower value-added areas of activity to developing countries, then all can increase their national standards of living at the same time.
Those that moved up the income ladder also had better policy frameworks, governance, and business environments.
Second, South Korea has not only grown; it has also climbed the economic ladder by embracing technology.
Compounding the problem, German firms face increasingly stiff competition from China, which is climbing the ladder of manufacturing value-added.
That would raise incomes, provide stronger work incentives, and get more people onto the economic ladder than would high minimum-wage mandates that price people out of the market and create welfare dependency.
A poor person in Denmark, for example, has a much greater chance of moving up the income ladder than their counterpart in today’s America.
India has one foot on the ladder to global prominence.
In the 2020s and 2030s, however, growth will have to be driven by a new group of predominantly low-income countries that are striving to climb the ladder to middle- and high-income status.
Far from weakening China’s position, this has enabled the country to climb the value-added ladder.
More generally, it is time to make the WTO work for all member countries, not just for the great powers or countries whose global economic success was built on trade protectionism but now seek to “kick away the ladder” for developing economies.
By the 1800s, these various currents had merged into a social Darwinist view of progress that arranged races in a hierarchical ladder of achievement – an outlook significantly influenced by the West’s military superiority in its encounters with “inferior” races.
In fact, women are more likely than men to complete their degrees; but, as they climb the career ladder, they disappear from the ranks.
In recent years, terrorist attacks have been carried out by second-generation immigrants who reject the menial jobs their immigrant parents were forced to take, but lack the education and social acceptance needed to ascend the economic ladder.
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