Promoting labour intensive industry

Acevedo Vila has promised a 1 billion injection into this project, which would seek to transform the Puerto Rican economy from one consisting of labour intensive industry to one focused on high tech, capital intensive industry, while adding 33,000 new jobs.

Any service intensive industry faces the same challenges.

Moreover, there must be greater balance between capital intensive and labor intensive activities.

less capital intensive that there's less money that's required

First, it allows for many savers to pool their wealth to finance large enterprises that can achieve the efficiencies of scale possible from capital intensive modern industry.

It matters because the health care industry is the second most energy intensive industry in the United States.

Early high growth economies Japan, South Korea, Taiwan initially exported labor intensive products, then graduated to more capital intensive goods like motor vehicles, and then to human capital intensive activities like design and technology development.

Rural industry requires relatively little capital per job.

But encouraging labor intensive industries, which create jobs for the poor, must not be at the expense of capital intensive industries.

As a result, these labor intensive sectors must release a lot of labor and capital, which push into the capital intensive export sectors that are better able to cope with high wages.

Technical options for waste water treatment range from capital intensive conventional treatment systems to alternative systems with lower capital costs.

But it also skews decisions in favour of capital intensive enterprise and away from labour intensive activities more likely to benefit the poor.

The fact that the software industry is a skill intensive industry and largely dependent upon foreign markets encouraged Indian SMEs to operate abroad.

As a result, its economic model spawned a labor saving, capital intensive growth dynamic.

Six months ago, he traveled to the capital for intensive training in sign language.

Although there is some concern that labour intensive forms of production are less productive than capital intensive ones, this is not necessarily the case.

That is not true of India, where exports are still mainly skill and capital intensive.

Moreover, most of the observed growth was generated by capital rather than labor intensive sectors.

Distortions in key prices that favor capital intensive manufacturing need to be removed by raising the cost of land, energy, water, and capital.

These changes involve replacement of capital stock and avoiding long term, carbon intensive technology lock in.

These changes involve replacement of capital stock and avoiding long term, carbon intensive technology lock in.

Access to capital is a requirement that is becoming ever more acute as technological advances make productive processes more capital and less labour intensive.

Promoting non agricultural production in rural areas, particularly through encouragement of entrepreneurship, small businesses and labour intensive industry.

I mean, these sort of top down, mono functional, capital intensive solutions are really not going to cut it.

38. Diversification into labour intensive industry would seem to be an important option at least for the local or regional markets.

More capital intensive options could include building water reservoirs to ensure reliable water supplies, with appropriate environmental safeguards in place.

The gains are also not always permanent  women who lose jobs in internationally mobile labour intensive industries face difficulties in obtaining employment in the more capital intensive industries that may replace them.5

Industry cooperation in key sectors will provide the necessary capital business expertise to support economic development.

The largest scope for renewed private investment is in capital intensive sectors in which government has a major presence as regulator.

Identification of labour intensive products that can participate in intra industry trade is critical, and analyses of value chain potentials are equally important.

Desalination of salt water is another capital intensive option, which is used particularly in water scarce areas and for high value uses.

During the crisis, the level of banking activity fell particularly strongly in capital intensive areas such as traditional lending to the private sector.

However, there are two major impediments to the introduction of nuclear power in the developing countries it is capital intensive and technologically demanding.

They also enjoyed an excellent education and health service, a prosperous business community, considerable investment in capital infrastructure, an exemplary fishing industry, a growing offshore mineral industry, a transparent and competitive fiscal regime and a growing tourist industry.

Manufacturing accounted for 14.5 per cent of Paraguay's GDP, with a potential for growth, inter alia, in light industry, energy intensive industries and agro industries.

The move towards business tourism transformed the capital into a national hub for this segment of the tourist industry.

When production exceeds domestic demand, producers are compelled to expand exports, creating an export oriented, capital intensive industrial structure that supports rapid economic growth.

If the fruit of economic growth reaches the poor through employment creation, growth in capital intensive sectors has a limited effect on poverty reduction.

China s leaders are already eager to rein in energy and pollution intensive industry for reasons of national security, air and water quality, and simple economic efficiency.

China wants to shift from low value added, labor intensive industries such as textiles to higher value added sectors such as electronics and capital goods.

Public enterprise tends to be capital intensive, and the numbers involved are not proportionately high compared, for instance, with the annual increment from school leavers.

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However, obtaining the complete information set, even at the industry or sector level, is likely to be difficult and would require intensive and extensive data collection work.

Other measures say, capital insurance, or reform of the boundaries within the financial industry, à la Paul Volcker are worth considering.