Some have been able to reduce costs by sourcing from abroad, which has become cheaper in sterling terms.
This tends to favor balanced trade because investment strengthens industrial competitiveness, while consuming more than one produces necessarily means sourcing from abroad (as there's nowhere else to get goods if you didn't produce them yourself).
After all, leaked cables show that Iran's missile industry has been sourcing gyroscopes from abroad for years, and fiber optic versions are some of the best available.
If McKinsey is right and sourcing from abroad does make unemployment in Germany and elsewhere worse, protectionist sentiment will grow.In the end, Europe's big service firms are likely to get round to sourcing production from abroad, as its manufacturing companies have already done.
The restriction on movement means the senior management talent you would normally source from abroad for a start is a very big challenge.
This work now comprises such a tiny fraction of the costs of production that it's becoming cheaper for companies to do more of it at home with computers and software, and even bring back some of it ("in-source") from abroad.
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Thus, because Wal-Mart pays low wages and sources food from abroad, somehow attacking it is a nice proxy for voters' more general concerns.
Mr Pistorio reckons that the Berlusconi government has failed to create the right conditions to attract investment, whether from domestic sources or from abroad, and has not done enough to encourage innovation.The theme is taken up vigorously by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of both Fiat and Confindustria, the Italian business lobby.
