Second, you report that big American and Mexican textile-and-clothing firms have been busy setting up joint ventures that use local inputs.

ECONOMIST: Trading views

The bulk of a burger's cost depends on local inputs such as rent and wages, which tend to be lower in poor countries.

ECONOMIST: Burgernomics

It stops governments from requiring investors to use a minimum level of local inputs, and to export at least as much as they import.

ECONOMIST: A survey of world trade