More than two-thirds of global manufacturing activity takes place in industries that tend to locate close to demand. This simple fact ...
Where the hell does not "simple fact come from"? Is a car assembled with lots of foreign parts all "manufactured" in the US. Is Ikea furniture that consumers put together "manufactured" in the US? Remember when McDonald's workers were called manufacturers? On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Patrick Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > a) should we take this pop-biz-econ talk seriously, about 'next-shoring'? > http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/manufacturing/next-shoring_a_ceos_guide?cid=manufacturing-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1401... > and > b) will it affect our struggle to halt a massive port/petrochem expansion > here in Durban? > > Do let us know, comrades, I haven't got my head around global production > and value-chain shifts - and what they mean for the biggest port in > Africa... > > Thanks, > Patrick > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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