{"id":18678,"date":"2026-10-27T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=18678"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:20:10","slug":"chokepoints-in-global-supply-chains-lessons-from-rare-earths-and-hard-disk-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/chokepoints-in-global-supply-chains-lessons-from-rare-earths-and-hard-disk-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Chokepoints in global supply chains: lessons from rare earths and hard disk drives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ryan Banerjee, Michael Chui and Leonardo Gambacorta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resilience measures should match the vulnerability: alternative capacity and technologies can address persistent dependencies, while inventories, supplier redundancy and geographical flexibility can cushion temporary disruptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Concentration and limited substitutability can turn the efficiency gains from global supply chains into vulnerabilities. However, the consequences of chokepoints depend on their underlying nature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The rare earths industry illustrates a persistent dependence on concentrated processing capacity. By contrast, flexibility and effective crisis management can speed up recovery from a temporary disruption, as seen in hard disk drive production after the 2011 Thailand floods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: BIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bis.org\/publications\/bulletin-139-chokepoints-global-supply-chains-lessons-rare-earths-and-hard-disk-drives.pdf\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Banerjee, Michael Chui and Leonardo Gambacorta Key takeaways \u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: BIS \u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18679,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions\/18679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}