Many products and services are created along supply chains that travel from idea conception to final consumption and that include value-added activities of varying degrees of labor-, physical capital-, and intellectual capital-intensity.

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David Pritchard, an American academic and consultant who has studied both companies, says that Airbus must now send more basic work to cheap-labour countries in Asia with currencies tied to the dollar, keeping only high-added-value stuff and final assembly in Europe.

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As of this writing, gold appeared set to close out the week with a half-percent loss in value but the final tally remains to be ascertained later on in the day.

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You, or your employer - or a combination of both - will pay money into a pension and the final value will depend on the investment growth achieved by the money that is being invested.

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The final sign of a turnaround, which I call "long-term value creation, " occurs if and when the country's leaders seriously address long-term competitiveness issues: quality of products, value-added component of exports, acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and educational reforms.

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This is the flip-side of the corporate trend that started the exodus from final-salary pensions in the first place: bosses these days pay more attention to shareholder value, but the shareholders are the pension and mutual funds that invest society's retirement savings.

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