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Location factor

Understand the crucial role of government intervention in influencing the location of industries based on economic, social, and environmental factors to achieve strategic, political, and economic objectives.

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Location factor

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  1. Location factor Institutional factor

  2. What is institutional factor? • External forces to influence the location of industries • Government intervention in terms of incentives or penalties • Both central and local governments can exert influence • Both free and planned economy

  3. Why does the government intervene?

  4. Strategic reasons • To avoid attack of industries during wartime, e.g USA and China • To encourage the development of military industries, e.g. munitions and aircrafts manufacturing

  5. Political reasons • To maintain economic growth and political stability • To minimize social unrest and riots • To reduce regional economic inequalities or imbalance • To integrate minority races, e.g. China

  6. Economic reasons • To ensure overall economic well-being of the country • To provide job opportunities • To stimulate economic growth • To achieve modernisation (e.g. in many LDCs) • To promote the growth of some particular industries • To diversify economy • To fully utilize resources/factors of production • To raise productivity and increase the wealth of the country

  7. Social reasons • To minimize social unrest • To achieve regional economic balance • To lessen social problems, e.g. massive internal migration, crimes, family problems, suicides, violence brought by unemployment and poverty

  8. Environmental concern • To reduce environment problems/pollution • To disperse industries • To discourage industrial concentration in urban areas

  9. Government measures

  10. Infrastructure, transport & utilities

  11. Providing cheap and extensive land

  12. Jurong Industrial Estate, Singapore

  13. Cambridge Science Park, UK

  14. Silicon Valley, South California, USA

  15. M4 Corridor, UK

  16. Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park

  17. Slows down redundancy Reduce unemployment rates Encourage employers to take on unemployed workers Example: various employment programmes in HK Employment Services (Elementary Jobs) Employment Services (Skilled Jobs) Employment Programme for the Middle-aged Count On Talent Not Age in Employment Policy making

  18. Establish new industries • To provide regional development funding • To save depressed areas • To develop industries in new areas • To raise production

  19. Example 1: China • Planned economies • The Chinese Government set up a large petroleum refinery and petrochemical works in Urumqi in 1950s – 1970s • To achieve regional economic balance and industrial dispersion

  20. Example 2: UK, France • Mixed economies • To establish nationalized plants in depressed regions and rural areas

  21. To attract foreign investment • To offer favourable terms of trade • To grant tax concessions (tax holidays, low rates on profit taxes) • To grant industrial land at low prices • To provide loans & subsidies • To provide cheap land, factory buildings and workers • To provide freight concessions

  22. To protect home industries • To impose tariffs and quotas on imported finished products • Example: USA imposed tariffs on imported Japanese cars to protect the automobile industry

  23. To adopt zoning policy • Specify the siting of industries • Examples: HK – the setting up of industrial estates

  24. To set up training institutes • To retrain workers • To modernize firms/production • To update technological advances

  25. To impose control • To reduce pollution and other environmental problems • Air, water, noise pollution • Traffic congestion

  26. To adopt town planning measures • To limit the location of repulsive industries, e.g. leather tanning • And environmentally dangerous industries, e.g. chemical works • To encourage the development of cleaner industries • To force the manufacturers to treat their sewage and waste products before disposal

  27. To adopt strong central planning • Common in socialist countries, e.g. China, Russia, Yugoslavia • Direct government intervention • Depends on top-level decisions

  28. Demerits of too much intervention • Excess subsides Low incentives to increase productivity • Which may slow down industrial restructuring • Too much protection reduce imports  higher prices  inflation • Penalties  cost of production ↑ • Sub-optimal location  unprofitable/close down of industries/wastage of resources • Complex bureaucratic barrier  inefficient management/low incentive to produce

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