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The NIC Challenge in Advanced Electronics

In: Automation and World Competition

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  • Ashoka Mody

    (The World Bank)

  • David Wheeler

    (Boston University)

Abstract

We concluded in the previous chapter that garments and textiles are showing signs of “de-maturing” with the advent of microelectronics-based production, data-processing, and communications systems. It seems likely that the higher wage NIC producers will experience a squeeze as competition increasingly centers on the race between cheap robots in the West and low-wage workers in poorer nations. The more successful producers may, of course, respond by following the OECD firms into more capital- and knowledge-intensive production. Given the relative scarcity of these factors in the NICs, however, the question of appropriate focus remains open.

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  • Ashoka Mody & David Wheeler, 1990. "The NIC Challenge in Advanced Electronics," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Automation and World Competition, chapter 3, pages 74-127, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11312-5_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11312-5_3
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