Because wage rates are so low in Africa, why don't Microsoft, Cisco and other major corporations close down their American operations and move to Africa?
What will be an ideal response?
Wage rates must be weighed against productivity. It is not just wages that influence where production occurs. Wages divided by the productivity of the workers gives the average cost of production. In Africa, workers have low levels of skill, education, and training so their productivity is much less than in the United States. Therefore the cost of production would be far higher in Africa than in America. So even though U.S. wage rates are high, industries stay here because the cost of production is lower because U.S. productivity is so high.
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