Brazil is also seeking to export higher-value produce, in which it has traditionally lagged.
The study detects a shift from field crops towards higher-value horticulture and livestock farming.
Sustained growth in income and jobs relies on a continuous shift of resources to higher-value industries.
Subsidies waste resources because they re-direct land, labor, and capital away from higher-value and toward lower-value uses.
As Japan moved into higher-value exports, rising productivity pushed up wages, making old industries, such as textiles, uncompetitive.
The stations themselves also are on higher-value land with higher taxes, a cost that gets passed to consumers.
In Mexico, 86% of mobile telephone services are prepaid, largely because of the barriers of acquiring higher-value postpaid plans.
Squeezed though it is, ChevronTexaco is investing what it can in higher-value ventures.
But little of this was likely to lead to higher-value exports to China.
Their long-term plan is to add higher-value goods and expand the overseas business once their business model is proven successful.
In Puebla, officials are encouraging farmers to switch from maize and coffee to higher-value crops, such as bamboo and fruit.
Those that have done best are now moving away from staple crops to higher-value things such as flowers and fruit.
The government even wants to ban some raw-material exports, hoping to dragoon mining companies into building smelters and exporting higher-value goods.
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BNDES, among others, argues that, in order to boost exports of higher-value products, Brazil's handful of steel makers need to join forces.
As wages rise, manufacturers find themselves unable to compete either with lower-cost producers elsewhere or, in higher-value-added products, with more advanced economies.
The idea was that while gas prices were low, the cash flow from the higher-value liquids would be enough to keep Chesapeake solvent.
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However, China's future export growth is likely to come not from existing industries but from higher-value products, such as computer chips and cars.
To escape the wars of attrition dictated by price competition, businesses must move toward higher-value products and services and actively enter into overseas markets.
The development of real estate into higher-value uses through into and through the real estate boom and other items has not generated a positive return.
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The more traditionally based regions focused, largely uninhibited, on their core businesses, and often used the income to diversify their economies into higher-value added fields.
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By contrast, Apotheker seems to be focusing on the creation of higher-value services that the company can offer large companies, small and mid-sized businesses, and consumers.
In 1991, when the government started liberalizing, the brothers figured they could expand in basic chemicals or move into higher-value work for the drug and chemical industries.
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Koch tends to invest in industries that convert raw materials into higher-value products, with complicated operations that require a lot of engineering talent and constant innovation in production methods.
"Growth in our PC business was challenging, as we saw a tough macroeconomic and competitive environment, and continued to focus on higher-value solutions in this business, " Mr. Gladden said.
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And domestic growth is becoming the important emerging-market story: hundreds of millions of people are earning enough to let them rapidly accumulate higher-value consumer goods, from cars to computers.
This will mean losing lower-skilled jobs, but that loss will eventually be offset by a gain in higher-paid jobs as British firms specialise further in higher-value and more innovative services.
Many small subcontractors are trying to make higher-value products.
In contrast, HCL's growth is mostly focused on management of infrastructure, such as servers, while Infosys has focused on higher-value businesses such as consulting, where potential clients are not spending right now.
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