How Services Shaped the World Economy That We Know Today

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Published: February 10, 2020

We, as global citizens, affect one another through the shift and movement. A phenomenon could be happening on the other side of the world, and it can still affect us. Similarly, this could happen in an economic aspect as well.

One example of this is the 2008 global financial crisis wherein the deregulation of banks caused a major upset in the finances of both developed and developing nations alike. That crisis deeply affected our world economy.

Simply put, the World Economy is the economy of all the humans in the world. And what makes this effective is the exchange of goods and services across the different nations of the world. There are several indicators to measure a country’s economy which are as follows: employment, industries, energy, trade, communications, transport, and military.

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), there was a slow pace of growth last 2019, but the global economy is projected to have a reasonable increase this 2020. Furthermore, trade barriers and business sentiments are a few of the challenges in which the global economy faces, however, services are here to strengthen and reform global alliances.

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The Services Economy

A large part of our lives is driven by services. Services are responsible for how we eat, how we buy things, and even the mundane transactions we do. With our need for services in our daily lives, it became possible for a services economy to be created. As a result, the demand allowed for an exchange of services on a global scale.

For a country to have a service economy, the services should generate more value than sectors like manufacturing and agriculture. This development is similar to the 19th-century movement wherein the manufacturing economy surpassed the agricultural economy. Nowadays, the service movement is catching up with the goods economy and that could be positive news among developing nations. Even developing nations that have a strong agricultural background can have the potential to become developed nation despite the lack of presence of the manufacturing industry.

The Role of Outsourcing in the Economy

Outsourcing as a service plays a huge role in the global economy. In fact, it’s beneficial to both the service provider and the client. Locally, the host country’s economy increases every time a foreign country contracts an outsourcing service. As for the foreign outsourcer, there’s this connotation that the nationals are losing their jobs over outsourcing. In 2016, in the US, only 1% of all the jobs lost resulted from outsourcing, while the majority were lost because businesses closed due to high operating costs. Outsourcing can create more jobs by allowing businesses to focus on their core operations, as it saves a significant amount of overhead and converts fixed costs into variable costs. Moreover, outsourcing is a two-way street where emerging nations and established nations meet to trade productivity.

The world is indeed shaped by services. Be it simple or complex, all countries are affected by the need for services alike. In the end, it’s up to us to use services as an efficient tool for the betterment of the nation we are representing and for the global economy.

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