Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part four. The field of consumption

Collection:: Economics Books

The Contrast between Asia and Australia 313 (V) Tre PrivMaRYy PropucTioN oF AsiA AND AusTRALIA (Continued) WoRrLp’s CHIEF PRIMARY PRODUCTS (IN APPROXIMATE ORDER OF TOTAL VALUE) Copper . . . . . Citrus fruits . . . Cement . . Gold . . . Bananas Berries . Tea . Cottonseed . Stone... Peanuts . . . Clay and brick Raw silk. Rubber . Flaxseed (linseed) Coffee . . . . Water for power . Flax fiber . . Coconuts Lead . Silver Tin . Zinc . Jute JERCENT- PERCENTAGE AGE Pro-| PRODUCED IN DUCED IN|AUSTRALIA AND ASIA NEW ZEALAND 4 m 25) 2) 5 20) 2) 10 1. (0.4) 11.4 0.1 (0.4) 00 25 ©) 25) 5) 30 0.0 0.4) 0.0 0.6) 0.0 20 30 20 J 3 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 M0 MM PARTS OF ASIA IN WHICH CHIEFLY PRODUCED Japan, India India and Japan Widely distributed India to S. China W. and N. Asia N. E. India, Ceylon, S. E. China, Japan, Java Dutch E. Indies, India Widely distributed S. E. Asia W. Asia, China, India Japan, China (center and southeast) Ceylon, East Indies, Malay Peninsula India (Ganges valley) East Indies, India Japan Western Siberia S. E. Asia India, Japan Tapan Malay Peninsula Benga. appreciable extent, and hence marked 0.0 in Table V. What kinds of products are they — food fibers, metals, fuels, other raw materials ? List articles in which the production of Australia exceeds that of Asia. What kinds of products are they? Dependence of people of Asia upon local products. Americans consume many goods brought from a distance, and they often fail to realize that far more than half the people of the world consume little except the products of their own immediate locality. In China and India the average consumption of imported products per capita among hundreds of millions of people amounts to less than fifty cents’ worth per year. Those same people rarely consume more than two or three dollars’ worth of domestic goods other than those produced within a few score miles of their homes. The high cost of primitive transporta-

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