Making supply chains more resilient
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Making supply chains stronger
Automobile and electronics manufacturers worldwide have recently had to reduce output because a severe drought in Taiwan has hit the island s production of semiconductors. This and other global supply-chain disruptions many of them caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have prompted advanced economies to take steps to mitigate the potential impact. But what types of government action make economic sense?
Supply-chain bottlenecks can have a significant economic effect. Germany, for example, imports 8% of its intermediate products from low-wage countries (the United States relies on these economies for just 4.6% of its inputs). Problems with input deliveries recently led Germany s Ifo Institute to lower its forecast for German GDP growth this year by almost half a percentage point, to 3.3%.