“Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.” CountryGovernmentUsedHavensBenefitsDuesBritainGoodsOther CountriesUnemploymentImports Author:Eamon de Valera
“It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.” ThinkingFirstsCountryEconomyStrategySouthChinaEastJapanPhasesKoreaImportsSubstitutionSouth Korea Author:Jairam Ramesh
“The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.” CountryEconomyGrowingDirectBasesInvestmentProductionsEastJapanAsianImportsAccelerateAsian Countries Author:Toshihiko Fukui
“It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.” DoeRealCountryWaterCitiesProduceIndustryTradeThreatEnvironmentalInvisibleBordersGrainScarceScarcityImportsIrrigationNational BordersAquifers Author:Lester R. Brown
“Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.” PersonsCountryUseEarthEnergyNationsWasteStandardsAlternativesGermanyJapanOther CountriesStandards Of LivingImportsSweden Author:Jimmy Carter
“Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.” CountryLawWishMiddleImportanceDemocraticSouthEastCustomsMiddle EastAsiaDelightedRule Of LawImportsDemocratic CountrySouth Asia Author:Daniel Pipes
“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."” FirstsCountryAsksInterestCommunityViewsClassRightsProduceDutyProtectTaxesAdvantageBurdenProtectionSoilLabourAllowingImportsPlunderSecond Place Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.” CountryActionJobsLastsAmericaNightOrderSidesMistakeCuttingMiddleAdventureAuthorityProgramOriginalsSouthChinaEastMessIdiotExecutivesMiddle EastAmendmentsLast NightSecond AmendmentRiflesImportsSouth AmericaExecutive OrdersAk 47 Author:L. Neil Smith
“It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.” IfsWantNeedsGivingCountryChanceTechnologyProductsIndustryPeriodsGiving UpPaidCompetitionInternationalProtectionProducersTake TimeCheaperNew TechnologyImportsIt Takes Time Book:Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity Source: Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity