There is no question that the U.S. has lost an enormous number of manufacturing jobs to lower wage countries.
We are quite optimistic on the prospects for iPhone 5, its key new features and a potential cheaper handset targeted toward lower income countries.
During the 2000s, companies lost interest in IT as a source of competitive differentiation and focused on trying to make it more efficient by shifting basic functions to lower cost countries.
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For a while birth rates were lower in countries where lots of women worked outside the home, but more recently that trend has been reversed: higher fertility and higher employment rates for women go together.
Moreover, as the yuan strengthens against the dollar, some Chinese and US multinationals manufacturing there could shift production to lower cost countries, meaning the overall trade deficit would not be changed, the US China Business Council said.
Beyond more women taking part-time work in other countries, which can lower their earnings and career prospects, women in those countries also hold lower ranking positions.
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But by this gauge, the currencies of virtually all low-income countries are undervalued, since prices are generally lower in these countries than in rich ones (see right-hand chart, above).
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Countries far away from Russia (the UK or France) pay sharply lower prices than countries (such as Bulgaria) that are geographically much closer.
And we have to balance the costs against the risk that purchasers will turn to other, lower-cost countries.
They point out that America's manufacturing base has been cut down by years of competition from China and other lower-cost countries.
The bulk of a burger's cost depends on local inputs such as rent and wages, which tend to be lower in poor countries.
China also claims that the EU's policy transgresses UN climate-change agreements which ordain that mitigation costs should be lower for developing countries than rich ones.
Leather-goods maker Coach Inc. plans to gradually move some production out of China, where labor costs are rising, and into lower-cost countries, such as India and Vietnam.
Prices vary with local costs, such as rents and wages, which are lower in poor countries, as well as with the price of ingredients that trade across borders.
The proportion of people who have ever had an episode of clinical depression in their lifetime is 15% in the high-income nations and 11% in lower-income countries, the study estimates.
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The price of a burger depends heavily on local inputs such as rent and wages, which are not easily arbitraged across borders and tend to be lower in poorer countries.
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Cambodia is a major producer of clothing and shoes for Western buyers, and has benefited in recent years as rising wages in China have pushed some companies to shift orders to lower-cost countries.
Why would any company hold its patents and other intellectual property in a California-based company (where licensing fees would be subject to both federal and state taxes) when they can just as easily hold the IP in lower-taxed countries?
While the tournament doesn't carry with it the same prestige as a World Cup, it is essentially a trial run of the main event for the host nation, and for the lower-ranked countries involved it offers invaluable experience playing against the world's best.
Making heavy losses, stuck in state hands and with over-manned, expensive factories, it dragged its feet over the conversion of Airbus into a company, fearing that this would lead to a loss of French jobs as work was contracted out to lower-cost countries.
It is possible that since the iPhone market penetration is markedly lower in Nordic countries than in America, the pool of iPhone users in Finland includes a bigger proportion of more tech-savvy consumers who are migrating away from text-messaging more rapidly than average mobile subscribers.
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For example, Folbre notes that men constitute more than 71% of the workforce in manufacturing (which was hit hard in the recession, and also hit with outsourcing to lower cost labor countries, increased automation, and increased foreign trade) and they make up less than 25% of the workers in health and education services (where jobs have risen slowly, but steadily).
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We welcomed increasing regional cooperation under the U.S.-Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) in the areas of energy security, health, agriculture and food security, education, connectivity, environment and water, which significantly contributes to quality of life and capacity building among the Lower Mekong Basin countries, and supports ASEAN's aim of narrowing the development gap among its Member States and addressing the common challenges.
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Many Danes switched instead to lower-cost house brands but not healthier alternatives, and others crossed borders into Germany or other countries with lower food taxes to purchase their favorite products.
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For instance, older adults in high-income countries generally had lower rates of depression than their younger counterparts, while the trend was reversed in several poorer countries.
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This figure was higher than the proportion in ten countries and lower than that in 16 others.
Because in a global economy, new growth and jobs flow to countries that lower barriers to trade and investment.
By pitting exporters against importers, successive rounds of trade negotiations have encouraged politicians in many countries to lower trade barriers.
This move will be welcomed by business as it is pointless forcing industries to migrate to countries with lower pollution standards.
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Republicans have argued the bill could hurt the country's battered industrial base while pushing polluting industries to countries with lower environmental standards.
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