Those who do not move, do not notice their (supply) chains-inconvenient lessons from disruptions related to COVID-19.
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An Italian comedian once joked:
“Americans buy thousands of tons of Danish cookies, and Danes buy thousands of tons of American cookies, with a coming and going of ships, airplanes, trains. Is this sensible? Maybe it is, because the cookies are different. But why wouldn’t they just swap recipes?”
The target of this joke is ‘competitive’ imports. These are commodities that an economy could, and indeed produces to some extent.
Like the cookies trade joke, the 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic also raised concerns about competitive imports. Below, I will focus on few examples from healthcare.
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46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4608 Human-Centred Computing
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AI Soc
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0951-5666
1435-5655
1435-5655
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I033459/1)
Birmingham City Council (35708-233529)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P006965/1)
Birmingham City Council (35708-233529)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P006965/1)
EPSRC (Grant No. EP/P006965/1)
Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (Grant No. 35708-233529).