It is too labour intensive and the other main driver is it's getting close.
So the work that is and has to be cheap labour intensive will go there.
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It is a labour intensive process requiring significant laboratory resource over a number of years, limiting drug companies' willingness to invest.
It remains highly fragmented, under-capitalised, labour intensive and predominantly low-skilled: not the ideal position to be in as the business heads south.
Investing in green measures and green technology is actually good for the economy because a green economy is an incredibly labour intensive economy.
The collapse of capital intensive activities when money is tight will be quicker than in the labour intensive field, although the rebound is quicker.
The new design makes the adjustments easier and less labour intensive.
Clothing manufacture is highly labour intensive, and even market leaders like Levi's are finding it more and more difficult to maintain jobs in the industrialised countries.
It was however both land and labour intensive.
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Mind you big box stores are still labour intensive, the only difference is, instead of a lot of people owning and running their own stores one entity owns and runs the place with low-skilled labour from the pool of people who have been run out of business.
Car making is more capital-intensive than labour-intensive.
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In many other ways, the business of winning elections has become more capital-intensive and less labour-intensive, making political donors matter more and political activists less.
Their proposals to promote more private-sector jobs for the poor by cutting employers' national insurance contributions and shifting the burden of taxation on to capital-intensive activities from labour-intensive ones merit further consideration.
In Dongguan, factory managers face the choice of increasing wages (which they have hardly adjusted for years), shifting to less labour-intensive production or moving to areas where cheap labour is more abundant.
It uses a more labour-intensive production system than the Japanese firms it competes with to take advantage of low labour costs.
In labour-intensive manufacturing, however, Chinese workers, with their better elementary education, have a big advantage.
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If Africa cannot rely on textiles alone, it might try boosting labour-intensive farming instead.
As a result some industries, especially labour-intensive ones such as retailing, stay fragmented and inefficient.
In labour-intensive sectors, France has become highly automated, and many new jobs are temporary.
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It is also an industry that is labour-intensive and generates a lot of foreign currency.
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Mass modification is less labour-intensive and thus, for an industry with wafer-thin margins, more appealing.
In fact, in labour-intensive work, interest charges are a small proportion of total costs.
Now China is making inroads into such labour-intensive sectors as textiles, shoes and toys, too.
He is also working on cutting other taxes for labour-intensive industries, such as textiles and shoes.
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Private firms, especially in labour-intensive industries and in tourism, will be encouraged to invest in the North.
Third is a change in India's labour laws, which act as a serious obstacle to labour-intensive manufacturing.
In high income countries, physical activity dwindles as people use more technology and are less engaged in labour-intensive work.
With most of the work done by hand without any help from modern technology, its production is a lengthy and labour-intensive process.
Even though the climate is suitable, tea-growing is simply too costly, since the process is labour-intensive and resists automation.
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