Como é que se torna o investimento no "manufacturing" sexy?

"Once a leader in manufacturing, the United States has been hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs for the past decade, Liveris said. Between 2001 and 2010, U.S. companies closed more than 42,000 factories and lost 5.5 million jobs. About a third of the sector has disappeared.

The United States must reverse this trend if it wants to develop a sustainable economy, Liveris stated. Manufacturing is vital to a national economy because it has a high multiplier effect -- in other words, it creates supporting jobs outside of the sector. "Manufacturing matters whether I'm in Singapore or Moscow. Manufacturing creates jobs and creates jobs around those jobs."

Manufacturing supported 18.6 million jobs in the United States in 2009, according to a study from The Manufacturing Institute, a U.S.-based trade association. Analyzing data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Institute estimates that manufacturing created 11.8 million jobs within the manufacturing sector and supported 6.8 million jobs in sectors outside it, in areas such as accounting, legal services, transportation, finance, insurance and real estate.

"For every dollar [worth of manufactured products created], there's $1.40 created around it in the supply chain," Liveris noted, citing the study's conclusions. "The service sector only supports half of that value.... There's no question in my mind where jobs need to come from.... Only manufacturing can create the jobs that a new America needs.""
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Para o nosso país é a mesma coisa, para um país com três economias em que duas delas vão viver pior nos próximos anos (a pública e a de bens não-transaccionáveis) esta opção é fundamental.
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Como é que se torna o investimento no "manufacturing" sexy?
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Trecho retirado de "Dow Chemical's Andrew Liveris on the Future of Manufacturing -- and Making America Competitive Again"