Problem

Depressed industries


Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Industries in difficulty
Outmoded industries
Decline in industry competitiveness
Declining industrial sectors
Older industries
Ageing industrial sectors
Vulnerable industries
Nature:

Decline may stem primarily from the emergence of a cost-effective domestic substitute, in which case it is questionable whether any efforts should be made to modernize the outmoded industry or to protect it from foreign competition. In the case of trade-impacted industries making undifferentiated products in which costs alone determine sales, major declines inevitably resulted when the industries lost competitiveness. But the chronic adjustment problem for threatened industries is not a failure to move resources out of declining industries but rather that of adjustment within sectors and firms.

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-beingGOAL 10: Reduced InequalityGOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems
Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST