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A manufacturing migration?

Rapid wage growth, rising land costs and the appreciation of the renminbi have all helped to make China a less attractive place for low-end manufacturers to operate. Recent trends in foreign direct investment suggest that Asia's least-developed economies are benefitting, and this is a migration that has much further to run.

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