Capital intensive industries are not necessarily knowledge intensive industries.

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

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

But the WTO induced expansion of non agricultural labor intensive sectors, particularly the textile and clothing industries, could absorb these workers.

Energy intensive industries directly support four million jobs across the continent.

But energy intensive industries usually benefit from exemptions on carbon charges.

Eastern Ukraine is dominated by old fashioned energy intensive coal and steel industries.

For example, China s labor intensive export sectors are losing their competitive edge.

And now that China, too, is beginning to lose its comparative advantage in labor intensive industries, other developing countries especially in Africa are set to take its place.

First, Bangladesh does not have many energy intensive industries such as steel and aluminum manufacturing.

And, while military innovation has been spectacular, it is still very labor intensive.

This is because manufactured exports are typically more labor intensive than investment projects.

Instead, under the new Plan, China will adopt a more labor intensive services model.

Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology intensive industries.

The same holds true, though at a more modest level, even for energy intensive industries, like chemicals.

The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany s labor intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.

The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany s labor intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.

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

Expansion of exports of labor intensive manufactures has nonetheless lifted many Chinese out of poverty.

This type of government spending can create labor intensive jobs that will help to stem rising unemployment.

One partial result of this is that production in Europe has in many places become more labor intensive, with the capital to labor ratio tightening markedly.

Developing countries also need access for the unskilled labor intensive services in which they have a comparative advantage.

The librarians prepared to manually go through the boxes and begin the labor intensive process of cataloging them.

Expansion of exports of labor intensive manufactures has nonetheless lifted many Chinese out of poverty. That is not true of India, where exports are still mainly skill and capital intensive.

German firms reacted by outsourcing the labor intensive parts of their production chains and curtailing their investment in Germany.

The zones could combine integrated rural development for domestic consumption and labor intensive manufacturing and agro businesses for export.

Cheap energy provides a powerful incentive for energy intensive industries from steel and glass to chemicals and pharmaceuticals to locate in the US.

This turnaround comes despite South Africa s protection of its labor intensive sectors, such as clothing and textiles, through high tariffs.

These countries had already lost export market shares to China and other low value added and labor intensive Asian economies.

While the manufacturing approach served China well for 30 years, its dependence on capital intensive, labor saving productivity enhancement makes it incapable of absorbing the country s massive labor surplus.

Employee ownership has long been successful even in industries such as plywood manufacturing and investment banking that are both volatile and relatively capital intensive.

In the future, as in the past, the most labor intensive jobs will involve building homes, production facilities, and, in turn, communities.

More than half of all manufactured goods consumed in the US are made abroad, particularly low technology, mass produced labor intensive products.

This is a labor intensive, resource efficient, environmentally friendly growth recipe precisely what China needs in the next phase of its development.

In the long run, as labor shortages become acute, China will need to relinquish some low end, labor intensive manufacturing activities, which will translate into decelerating export performance and lower economic growth.

Coal is cheap and widely available in China, which is important as the country scrambles for energy resources to keep its many energy intensive industries running.

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Imports of cheap Chinese goods threaten to displace regional production, particularly in labor intensive manufacturing sectors that are finding it difficult to compete.

As foreign firms launch operations in the labor intensive sectors in which Africa has a comparative advantage, they will train the local workforce.

The problem is that service industries ultimately have to compete for workers in the same national labor pool as sectors with fast productivity growth, such as finance, manufacturing, and information technology. Even though the pools of workers may be somewhat segmented, there is enough overlap that it forces service intensive industries to pay higher wages, at least in the long run.

The spread of irrigated farming and water intensive industries, together with the demands of a rising middle class, have led to a severe struggle for more water.

In the 20th century, profitable activities in the Caribbean included tourism, offshore banking, and labor intensive manufacturing, especially of textiles and apparel and electronics.

In the 20th century, profitable activities in the Caribbean included tourism, offshore banking, and labor intensive manufacturing, especially of textiles and apparel and electronics.

These are economies that, even a decade ago, were losing market share to China and Asia, owing to their labor intensive and low value added exports.

This challenging climate undermines the project s viability, even though the business model based on lower cost workers from the North producing labor intensive goods makes sense.