19D ago
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Promote service‑sector expansion by embedding services directly into manufacturing supply chains (after‑sales, maintenance, design‑integration, logistics) so consumption and employment rise without hollowing out industrial capability. Policies would incentivize vertical linkages and require that new service sectors have contractual or equity ties to domestic factories to preserve value‑chain resilience.
— This reframes the services vs deindustrialization dilemma into a concrete industrial policy: grow services without losing manufacturing by making services complements rather than substitutes for domestic production.
Sources: The "Irrational Iron Cage" of Institutional Reform; Services without Deindustrialisation; Japan's Chip Leverage | Society and Economy Digest (December 2025)