Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade Notes: This figure plots the relationship between plant-level total factor productivity and NOx pollution per unit of out- put for US manufacturing in 1990. The plant-level productivity...
THERE is only one reason why we should worry that Britains manufacturing industry is declining at the fastest rate for 20 years and that is because the service sector is failing to fill the gap.
Declining Morality Teen pregnancy is occurring everywhere. Profanity has greatly increased in the entertainment industry. Dances are becoming more vulgar and are teaching small children bad habits. Out-of-wedlock births now seem to be common and‚ therefore‚ less frowned upon than before. One ...
REASONS BEHIND DECLINING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY The recent scandals in Japan's manufacturing industry, the analysts said, are the latest signs of the hollowing out of the country's heavily industrialized economy, underlining the structural difficulties Japan's manufacturing industry is facing. ...
Why productivity growth is declining in advanced economies Two waves have dragged down productivity growth by 1.9 percentage points on average across countries since the mid-2000s (Exhibit 3). The waning of a boom that began in the 1990s with the first information and communications technology (IC...
declining economic growth; ? increasing inflation; ? rising unemployment. 2. What problems may occur if there is an energy crisis? The key factors that cause the changes of oil prices usually include: ? changes in oil supply and demand; ? oil speculation activities; ? world conflicts; ?
Technology in the 4IR is enabling more knowledge work than ever before. Even in front-line, supply chain, and manufacturing workforces, where productivity metrics may seem most applicable, advances in data and connectivity, analytics, human-machine interaction, and robotics are automating more tasks...
author of the 2001 bookThe Coming Collapse of China, has warned–wrongly, so far–that doom lies around the corner. Cushioning China’s economy is its high growth rate, an estimated $260 billion (but declining) annual current account surplus and, at $2.3 trillion, the world’s biggest fore...
The Rust Belt is a colloquial term used to describe the geographic region stretching from New York through the Midwest that was once dominated by thecoal industry,steel production, and manufacturing. The Rust Belt became an industrial hub due to its proximity to the Great Lakes, canals, and ri...
China is primarily a manufacturing hub and an export-driven economy. Trade data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that China has been running a big trade surplus with the U.S. since 1985. This means that China sells more goods and services to the U.S. than the U.S. sells to China...