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‘Small beer’ Budget for disruptive technologies

March 7, 2017
These need to be reinvented quickly – maybe via Local Growth Hubs in LEPs – if opportunities to ‘reshore’ manufacturing supply chains are to be seized. We were also told that the Midlands Engine strategy will finally be published. This represents an effort …
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How the U.S. could bring back up to half the manufacturing jobs moved overseas

March 7, 2017
We have a long, difficult journey ahead; we need to pick the best paths. Harry Moser is the founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative and worked for several decades in manufacturing. Sandy Montalbano is a consultant to the Reshoring Initiative.
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How can India create Employment in the digital age?

March 7, 2017
Consequently, there is a trend to reshore production facilities closer to the home market. This reshoring trend could be accelerated by the revolt against globalisation in the West. Right-wing populists promise to “bring back jobs”. Politicians across …
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How we can prepare students for the automated working world

March 7, 2017
A bigger impact can be felt in developing countries. If computerization makes high-income countries more self-sufficient—less offshoring and more “reshoring”—then developing countries may lose their wage advantage. Besides slowing employment growth …
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The flawed labour logic of Trump’s reshoring agenda

March 6, 2017
Lexellent managing partner Sergio Barozzi unpacks the implications and limitations of US President Trump’s efforts to return jobs to the American workforce. goodluz Even before his inauguration at the White House, Donald Trump had already committed to make …
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Reshoring could be answer to high unemployment in S. Korea: report

March 6, 2017
SEOUL, March 8 (Yonhap) — Reshoring may be just what South Korea needs to deal with its high unemployment rate, especially for the youth, a report said Wednesday, urging additional government efforts to bring back South Korean firms that have gone offshore.
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NAFTA in Play: How President Trump Could Reshape Trade in North America

March 6, 2017
However, US negotiators will also be compelled to address the agenda implicit in Mr. Trump’s election manifesto: to reduce the trade deficit with Mexico, to impede foreign investment in Mexico for export to the US, to encourage job reshoring to the …
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Decoding Border Tax Speculation: A Sourcing Advisor Explains the Top Priorities for Procurement

March 6, 2017
Most of the Mexican manufacturing SMEs are scared of becoming “jobless” overnight due to a sudden change in any import tariffs that will force most of the major OEMs that target the U.S. market to reshore production back to the U.S. and shut down …
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Carmakers Put Pressure on Hammond to Support Them in U.K. Budget

March 6, 2017
There is a “role for the government to play” by making it “clear that it will preserve our trading arrangements and that it will invest for our auto sector’s future now, beginning with assistance for the reshoring of components.” Before it’s here …
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Unite on sale of Vauxhall to the PSA Group: ‘we need access to the single market and customs union.’

March 5, 2017
Wednesday’s Budget is a perfect opportunity for the government to make is clear that it will preserve our trading arrangements and that it will invest for our auto sector’s future now, beginning with assistance for the reshoring of components.
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