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46 per cent, versus 27 per cent for exports to the rest of the world. 10 Susan Newman and Lotte Takala-Greenish, ‘African Industrialisation: Is Global Value Chain Development the Answer?’, International Conference on Manufacturing Led Growth for Employment & Equality (May 2014), chapter 7. On World Bank Investment Climate Assessments, see Carol Newman
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. The UK became an internationalised and financialised economy, with a significant professional-managerial class whose high wages were premised upon hyper-exploitation lower down the global value chain.28 Today, the British economy is more dependent upon the services sector than any other G7 economy.29 The bulk of the lower middle and
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4% in 1990, and then doubled again to 4% and 8% by 2000. Moreover, this increase in economic heft coincided with the rising importance of global value chains (GVCs), whereby a country imports intermediate goods to produce goods for export. This vertical specialization accelerated greatly in the 1990s, with low-cost China often
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for Europe. A soft pound alone could not do the job. Except in a few brief periods, it had never done so before, and complex global value chains, in which there was a high import content, had in any case reduced the responsiveness of exports to the exchange rate. Against this backdrop, there
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