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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

private-sector research and development. businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% GDP while undertaking 40.9%