“AS an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.” WorldNeedsTwoWarStatesWinningGrowthUnitedClassMillionsUnited StatesEconomicMiddlePolicyAppreciateWar Of The WorldsMiddle ClassSentimentsHistorianEnginesTicketsManufacturingPublic PolicyTwo Worlds Author:Christina Romer
“During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.” WorldHas BeensCountryGrowthUnitedMajorsHighestSevenRateProductivityKingdomsLowest1960sManufacturingAnnualsOutputUnited Kingdom Author:Nigel Lawson
“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.” WayWantGrowthNatureCommunityLinesSpaceLevelsSupportEnvironmentGroupsPolicyTypeProtectModelsSmartGreenEmployeeRegionsValleysConservationManufacturingSiliconSilicon ValleyOpen SpacesSmart Growth Author:Carl Guardino
“A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.” CountryStrongNationsGrowthLevelsTechnologySupportRichEconomicIndustryBenefitsIndiaIncreaseRaisesInvestmentSecureEnterpriseGovernanceEconomic GrowthDefenceManufacturingReapBoost Author:Narendra Modi
“Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment.” HandsFormNationsGrowthStepsYouthBenefitsIndiaIncreaseEmploymentLionsInitiativeGovernanceManufacturingMake In India Author:Narendra Modi
“Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.” IfsNeedsEnoughFactsGrowsGrowthFocusPercentAspectIndiaShipsChineseIndianGoodsManufacturingDelivery Author:Arjuna Mahendran
“I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsChildrenHas BeensStatesFactsFeelingsGrowthUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomicAreasStrongerRecoveryDivisionUrbanEconomic GrowthManufacturingStagnationRural AreasUrban Areas Author:Barack Obama
“We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth.” WantJobsAmericaGrowthEconomicReturnEconomic GrowthManufacturing Author:Paul Ryan
“Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.” KnowsWayWarCountryGrowthEconomyKeysWeaponsOther CountriesManufacturingGreat DepressionExporting Author:Arundhati Roy
“If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.” IfsProblemAsksGrowthEconomicMajorsMassDrivenOrganizedOur SocietyEconomistFarmingEconomic GrowthManufacturingMechanization Author:Larry Page