Basic and non-basic are the two broad industry categories. Basic industries consist of small and large businesses that sell primarily to external customers. Non-basic industries consist of primarily ...

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Economic theory works on the premise that there are two types of employment: basic and non-basic. Economic base theory claims that basic employment is the engine of a local economy largely because its ...

A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the ...

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