Promoting labour intensive industry

D. Labour intensive approaches

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

Labour intensive entrepreneurs require cheap transportation.

The very nature of restructuring policies has led to an increase in women in the labour force, initially as part of a lower paid labour force in labour intensive industry.

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

Any service intensive industry faces the same challenges.

These jobs are strenuous, labour intensive and time consuming.

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.

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

(c) Labour, trade, industry and environment

LDCs' comparative advantage is in exports of labour intensive services.

they are very capital Intensive while labour Is often overabundant

The candy was very popular, but its manufacture was labour intensive.

These countries have successfully stimulated labour intensive reforestation programmes in the wetlands.

Routine labour intensive industries need basically literate and numerate entrepreneurs and workers.

Our agriculture is very labour intensive and requires the participation of everyone.

Specialization and interest International comparisons, GNP, industry, agriculture, labour force, labour productivity, prices, macroeconomics.

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

(e) Cumbersome and labour intensive procedures have to be followed for closing accounts

The system for collecting them is labour intensive and the processing technique laborious.

Promoting labour intensive technologies and technologies that conserve natural resources and protect the environment.

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

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

UNDP mobilized 58 million from Arab, Asian and Western donors for labour intensive infrastructure projects.

The labour intensive character of this part of the reporting system should not be underestimated.

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

Trade and labour market liberalization has also resulted in an increase in casualization such as seasonal employment in the agricultural sector and contracted labour services for other labour intensive activities.

The key programmes identified are in the areas of training and labour intensive employment creation, owing to the weakness of the formal labour market.

All of these techniques are limited to working only in settled areas and are quite labour intensive.

Furthermore, these labour intensive forms of production are nevertheless likely to be more productive than alternative possibilities.

6. Recommends that Governments facilitate the participation of small scale, labour intensive enterprises in public works activities

(b) Rehabilitating the Dabara canal using labour intensive methods under the technical supervision of a specialized firm

Economic specialisation in energy intensive activities was the result of the under pricing of energy and a deliberate bias towards industry, in particular heavy industry.

In addition, labour intensive manufacturing of textile products and clothing has declined as a result of overseas competition.

There was an Industry Tribunal, which, like the Labour Act, was not gender specific.

Trade in these services could offer important opportunities for developing countries given their comparative advantage in labour intensive services.

Community based projects include transitional support programmes, labour intensive public works, microenterprise support, training and short term educational support.

In addition, the multiplier effects of these labour intensive projects can further expand growth and development in poor communities.

The poor were seen as an important resource which could be tapped by labour and employment intensive development strategies.

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According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), female workers are often preferred in labour intensive service industries because they are considered cheap and flexible labour.

In addition, tourism was highly labour intensive, requiring little training, and provided jobs for all, including women and young persons.

The honey business is a labour intensive operation, as honey is poured by hand into 250 gram bottles for export.

This work around effort is extremely time consuming, very labour intensive, and requires highly skilled financial and information technology resources.