Obviously, those countries that had economic advantages in the 1970s and 1980s as a result of low land and labor costs and favorable government aid to industry now find, amidst the global transformation of the information age, that even later developing countries now enjoy those advantages over them.
很顯然地，七、八○年代因為土地成本低廉、勞力密集，或是大量運用包括關稅及非關稅保護、低利貸款資金等政府資源而取得經濟優勢的國家，在全球化經濟逐漸成形的資訊時代，都會遭逢開發較遲、尚具以上優勢地區的重大衝擊。