Moving up the global value chain is impossible without a dramatic overhaul of its current education system.
Trying to preserve its global value meantime, retained wealth in the west can only choose to buy hard assets and natural resources instead.
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It now contributes 40% of the global value of agricultural output.
The Tweedy, Browne Global Value Fund, which gets a FORBES grade of D in up markets but scores an A in down markets, hedges its foreign currency exposure.
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Unfortunately, the global industrial value chain is already extracting more resources than nature produces each year.
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About a fifth of global stockmarket value now sits in such firms, more than twice the level ten years ago.
However global sales value grew by 5%, thanks in part to the roll-out of its Drambuie 15 brand across a number of domestic markets.
Listed Chinese firms, which are largely state-controlled, are already some of the world's biggest, and account for over a tenth of global stockmarket value.
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An international business faced with a pure global market environment where consumers derive value from global characteristics only must pursue a cost leadership strategy.
Additionally she will serve as the brand manager for Star Wars, working directly with Disney's global lines of business to build, further integrate, and maximize the value of this global franchise.
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In particular, the sum of the value of global stocks, bonds, and bank assets is 366% of the size of global GDP.
The Swatch Group's support for smart watches is significant, since this conglomerate of Swiss watchmakers accounts for some 25% of global watch sales by value.
But it would require conservative intellectuals to dissociate themselves from their brethren who deny evolution, global warming and the value of stem-cell research, while promoting homophobia and the rest of the dreary litany of popular but ludicrous conservative causes.
Innovation-based startups tend to create work-forces with skill-sets that can add value to the global economy.
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But in 2012, total financial assets are nearly 10 times the value of the global output of all goods and services.
It is quite revealing to see the 2012 global sales numbers and the value brought by products introduced in or prior to the year 2000.
More subtly, global exchanges disagree about the value they put on everything from food companies to banks, even after taking account of differences in a firm's local prospects.
Businesses that value connections to global markets will weigh this aspect in their decisions about employment and investment, and over time some will turn away from London and Britain.
This effort will pay enormous dividends for the country, as it will help develop the human capital America needs to lead a global economy that increasingly creates value with big data and big bandwidth.
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This note has a term of six years, is principal-protected, and the return is linked to the value of a global index basket made up of the Dow, the Nikkei, and the Euro Stoxx 50.
Rather than the cost of content increasing commensurately with the cost of talent, the cost of content (notably online education) is decreasing in some cases to zero just as the top talent (the star professor) increases in value due to global distribution.
The Lucasfilm acquisition follows Disney's very successful acquisitions of Pixar and Marvel, which demonstrated the company's unique ability to fully develop and expand the financial potential of high quality creative content with compelling characters and storytelling through the application of innovative technology and multiplatform distribution on a truly global basis to create maximum value.
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So worries about the dollar's value aside, its global dominance is secure for now.
This materialism does not seem adequate as a value for guiding the global international family.
These forecasts may be optimistic, because they assume that Americans can continue to claw their way up the value chain in the global economy, and not get stuck along the way, as the Japanese did in the nineties.
The Internet as a whole is very diverse in technologies and software, which is why it is so robust, but we are going to keep seeing these large entities suffering large if not global outages as long as they value economy of scale in purchasing and maintenance over true system diversity.
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The debate regarding the trade-off between a global and a local strategy is misplaced because it views value propositions crossing national borders as products per se rather than as bundles of global and local characteristics.
Based on our Global 2000 composite ranking for sales, profits, assets and market value, Citic, a newcomer to the list, ranks 1740 in its Global 2000 debut.
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