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How much should we worry about global supply chains?

Since the earthquake struck on 11

th March, there have been many warnings that massive economic disruption in Japan will be transmitted equally around the world through global supply chains

. In our view, these concerns are exaggerated. They are based largely on anecdotal information and over-state the sensitivity of global production to localised disruption.

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