It has built one of the world's fastest-growing economies, thanks mainly to the large-scale export of oil, metals and grains, which helps to ensure that it doesn't rely too heavily for trade on Russia, its former Soviet neighbor, or on China.

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As the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been examining the question, the debate in Israel has tended to juxtapose the energy security advantages of maintaining a large strategic natural gas reserve against the economic and other benefits of export, which requires scale to justify the considerable capital expenditures to build the required infrastructure.

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At present, Dharavi has a large number of thriving small-scale industries that produce embroidered garments, export quality leather goods, pottery and plastic.

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If we take concrete steps with policy, education, and investment, we may be able to scale a whole new U.S. export industry of services and knowledge.

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The dynamics are a bit involved but in short export industries will tend to be folks who gain from increasing returns to scale.

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America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.

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Thus Fiat makes a version of the Palio at Cordoba in Argentina to export to Brazil, instead of at its huge Betim complex, sacrificing potential economies of scale.

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South Sudan has large-scale oil production, but is landlocked and reliant on Sudan's ports for export.

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To export yellow potatoes, farmers need to deal with bugs and fungal diseases, and to produce on a larger scale.

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