Yet Myanmar's bountiful resources and strategic location still command Beijing's attention.
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The first stage in the cycle is that of factor-driven economies which focus on low-cost basic factor conditions, such as low-skilled labour, natural resources and geographic location.
Both countries would be sitting pretty if location and resources were all that mattered.
While Facebook is a concept of the mind that can migrate its human capital to the tax climate it deems best, Continental Resources cannot change the location of the Bakken oil field.
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From within the car, Kia owners will benefit from Google Places, which will provide POI and destination resources such as a dealership location, and Google Maps, which will provide directions to virtually anywhere and everywhere a car can travel.
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But that, they argue, implies a mistaken reliance on factors such as natural resources, cheap wages or geographic location, and will not provide the basis for long-term prosperity.
But scaling of compute resources is linear with the number of endpoints, since in the case of the hidden location file, each one brings its own resources to the party.
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Both native apps and Web apps will be powered by increasingly sophisticated and pervasive cloud resources: storage, computation, collaboration, transactions, location services, content distribution, and remote 3D video rendering.
If those who create the resources give back to that start-up common, the location attracts more start-ups.
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As Katrina demonstrated, if the electricity goes off for any protracted period of time, there is a cascading ripple-effect which takes down the means by which we communicate, get food and water, access financial resources, receive medical services, dispose of sewage and move from one location to another.
The introduction of hosted servers, co-location and managed services meant that even those entities, without significant capital or technical resources, could gain benefits previously unavailable to the start-up.
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