Thus, it enables to monitor the total flows of goods and services produced, as well as value added, starting from the initial production stage to the final use stage.

UNESCO: Belarus: Report: Part I: Descriptive Section

Their official data on exports show that low value added production accounts for a declining share of total exports, falling to below 50 percent since 2008.

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Gross (or net) operating surplus of the economy is the part of value added which remains with producers after deducting outlays related to the remuneration of employees and taxes on production.

UNESCO: Belarus: Report: Part I: Descriptive Section

But the key to economic growth is not just the low cost of production, it's the value added--the innovation, design or better architecture, or the sheer intangible of exciting fashion.

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It has happened because rich-world companies have replaced workers with new technology to boost productivity and shifted production from labour-intensive products such as textiles to higher-tech, higher value-added, sectors such as pharmaceuticals.

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