'Regarding the
labour-intensive industries, I feel it is possible more Chinese companies will ask to come here [and set up businesses] due to the trade war, Ong said.
The growth target seems unachievable owing to mounting external sector pressures, but more employment can be created by shifting some focus to
labour-intensive businesses.
Labour-intensive techniques, by contrast, may increase employment, but may have a limited effect on increasing output.
The UAE plans to build 50,000 new housing units in the next period, besides its involvement in a number of
labour-intensive housing and real estate projects, according to Salman.
Upon the contracts, the Japanese government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will provide EGP 25.5 million finances for
labour-intensive infrastructure projects in Aswan, Beheira, Giza and New Valley.
Such rates must be "targeted on
labour-intensive activities in a competitive fashion and for which the final consumer tends to fulfil himself or use the underground economy," it continues.
Earlier in December, the European Union (EU) contributed a grant of e1/4 70m towards financing SFD's Emergency
Labour-Intensive Investment Project.
The European Commission has drawn up a proposal that would allow member states to set a reduced rate of value-added tax (VAT) on certain
labour-intensive or locally-provided services.
Although this logically led him to champion the ideal of efficient industrialized modular construction, his own brief foray into the genre, a pair of Braithwaite houses on the LCC Watling Street Estate at Burnt Oak, was a
labour-intensive failure, the building itself shortly being destroyed by a nearby flying bomb.
In practical terms, the Austrian Presidency not surprisingly proposes rolling over Annex K of Directive 77/388/EEC (on reduced rates for
labour-intensive services) until December 31, 2010, along with an obligation on the Commission and the Council Secretariat to present the necessary legislative provisions to legally establish this proposal if it were to be endorsed by EU Economic Affairs and Finance Ministers.
Beside the Saar river in Saarbrucken, an inner-city multimedia business centre has replaced former
labour-intensive coal and steel industries.
