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E-payments are a key factor in lowering business and transaction costs in China, because they improve efficiency in the retail sector, where prices can still be higher than in the US even when the products are made in China.
Another possibility, which can accompany the first one, is that Mexico’s rapid opening to imports has bifurcated its economy between a relatively small number of technologically advanced, globally competitive winners, and a growing segment of firms, particularly in services and retail trade, that serve as the residual source of employment.
Over the next several years, as the traded or tradable share of the state-owned sector’s market capitalization increased from today’s low base of 10-15%, more institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies, would become involved in Chinese equity trading, which is currently dominated by retail investors.
Its retail sector is already growing quickly, but it lags behind in areas like e-merchandizing and supply-chain efficiencies.
One of my favorite cartoons – from The New Yorker – shows a retail salesman standing next to a display case labeled “Communication technology.”
As a result, the country with the world’s most extensive system of price controls also has the highest inflation – as well as an ever-expanding police effort that jails retail managers for holding inventories and even closes the borders to prevent smuggling.
This unprecedented intrusion into areas historically reserved for the states would handcuff directors and boards, shut out the vast majority of retail shareholders, and exacerbate the short-term focus that is now seen as one of the root causes of the financial crisis.”
This would have restored the separation between retail and investment banking, which was swept away by the de-regulating wave of the 1980’s and 1990’s.
The retail giant Wal-Mart is driving emissions reduction throughout its supply chain.
The prolonged recession and economic malaise have dented the individual savings rate, while banks no longer have the resources to provide peace of mind to many retail investors, whose trust has been severely eroded.
Looking beyond the US, a fourth indicator is the ratio of Chinese retail spending relative to industrial production (adjusted for inflation).
The ratio of Chinese monthly retail sales to industrial production, while erratic, has been slowly trending higher since 2008, and there appears to have been another uptick in consumption recently.
Governments already can block cryptocurrencies from circulating in the legal economy by restricting bank access, imposing tax laws, and by also impeding retail stores’ ability to accept it.
In several key sectors such as financial services and retail, China is already more open than Thailand.
Perhaps more important, it fails to recognize that Li’s Chinese land holdings still amount to more than 20 million square meters (215 million square feet) – nearly a quarter of the size of Manhattan – and that the number of retail outlets he owns in China has increased by 70% in two years.
Scammers, swindlers, charlatans, and carnival barkers (all conflicted insiders) have tapped into clueless retail investors’ FOMO (“fear of missing out”), and taken them for a ride.
Consider also what is happening to private consumption and retail sales.
Recent monthly figures suggest a pick-up in retail sales.
Some 98% of the 27.3 million net new jobs created in the US since 1990 have been in the non-tradable sector – dominated by government, health care, retail, hospitality, and real estate.
McKinsey estimates that big-data analytics could add about $325 billion, or 1.7% to annual GDP in the retail and manufacturing sectors, while generating up to $285 billion in productivity gains and cost savings in health care and government by 2020.
In rich economies, consumers spend the bulk of their income on services such as health, education, transportation, housing, and retail goods.
The situation in the US is particularly glaring, given that health care accounts for a bigger share of GDP than manufacturing, retail, finance, or insurance.
Other industries, including banking and retail trade, struggled with IT until they got it right.
But other important indicators – like retail sales and housing – show upticks.
By contrast, the Chinese markets are dominated by retail investors, who are more likely to pursue short-term gains and engage in momentum trading, thereby exacerbating volatility and creating a greater disconnect between equity prices and real economic growth.
Japanese workplaces sacrificed some formality – allowing workers to wear short sleeves and no ties or jackets to the office – to enable office and retail buildings to minimize their use of air conditioning.
Until a few decades ago, democratic leaders had to climb the electoral ladder, rung by rung, acquiring along the way a facility for retail politics, stump speaking, and the demands of assembling a working majority.
Consider the case of a hypothetical Latin American retail company that borrowed abroad in dollars to build a shopping mall at home.
Increasingly, Russia’s oil surpluses drive economic growth through rising investment, which boosts construction and consumption, in turn benefiting retail trade and finance.
When retail investors sold off their holdings of such assets during the summer of 2013, institutional investors kept buying.
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