In terms of reality in the marketplace today, currency is being perpetuated from currency without investment in labor and materials to produce added value.
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In industry after industry when minimum prices are set on labor either capital ends up getting substituted through investment in labor-saving technology or low-skill jobs move overseas.
Taxes and industrial relations are areas where the left and the right are never likely to agree: but in the area of investment, the government's Labor critics and its natural supporters in business have formed common cause in condemning Mr Howard's record.
In Sydney, Australia's commercial hub, frustration over the dearth of investment in the congested transport system helped deliver swathes of suburban seats in former Labor strongholds to the conservative Liberal-National coalition.
And if SundaySky can continue to offer companies a 200% return on investment and become less labor-intensive in producing videos, it could realize that ambitious vision.
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This new security situation, the ongoing reduction in tariffs and the relative low cost of labor force will be translated into an increase in foreign investment in sectors such as gold and coal mining, oil exploration and manufacturing, to name a few.
It was under 30 percent of GDP and rose to 50 percent of GDP as the country got richer, labor markets improved and investment capital poured in.
Labor unions will launch renewed calls for investment in infrastructure this week at the OECD forum.
The Board of CalPERS thanks to the strong, principled intervention by State Treasurer Phil Angelidis and his visionary Deputy, Jennifer Ducray-Morill has voted to include human rights, labor rights and environmental concerns in its overseas investment decision-making process.
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He repeated GDP is growing below potential, which in turn has depressed business investment and hiring, and that the labor market remains weak.
Rising costs in China have cast a shadow over many businesses in the country, and are seen as eroding its attractiveness for foreign investment, especially for labor-intensive manufacturers.
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Controversies surrounding Herman have included her role in arranging some of the White House political coffees with donors, the awarding of contracts while she was in the Carter Administration's Labor Department right before she left her job, and her involvement in a controversial investment in the District of Columbia.
Besides making sound investment decisions, Folz has been an effective manager of people, a particularly important skill in countries with restrictive labor laws.
Recently, after Boeing had completed a multi-billion dollar investment in a new plant and was about to open the doors to thousands of new jobs, the National Labor Relations Board attempted to prevent it from opening.
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According to China observer Shaun Rein, the country is already in a labor shortage, which began during the Great Recession, as many American and European companies stepped up investment in China to offset a sales slow-down in their home markets.
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