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While Hong Kong remains the largest investor in the mainland and reallocated 90% of its labor-intensive manufacturing to factories in China, the mainland is the second largest "foreign" investor in Hong Kong.
A model of growth that the economist Tyler Cowen has called “cell phones instead of automobile factories” raises the obvious question: How do people in the developing world afford to purchase cell phones in the first place?
But it also harbors some centers of technological excellence, such as the factories that produce important spare parts for Russian military helicopters.
Workers who choose to work should find jobs; factories should deploy their capital efficiently; and the part of income that is saved rather than consumed should be invested to improve future wellbeing.
Bernice Dapaah, the founder and CEO of Ghana Bamboo Bikes, plans to build two new factories soon, adding 50 more workers in communities with high unemployment.
Peace can be achieved only with a withdrawal of foreign troops, and the arrival of jobs, productive farms and factories, tourism, health care, and schools.
In the third phase, lasting three to five years, aid supports the first phase of post-war economic development, including restoration of schools, clinics, farms, factories, and ports.
In developing countries, the impact will be greatest in manufacturing, and factories there already are rapidly putting in place labor-saving technology.
This might reflect temporary factors, like the Japanese tsunami, which disrupted supply chains and caused some factories to suspend operations.
By making it possible to manufacture in almost workerless factories in advanced economies, automation could cut off the path of export-led growth that all of the successful East Asian economies pursued.
The military owns airlines and freight companies, petrochemical factories, power generation plants, sugar mills, cement and fertilizer plants, construction firms, banks and insurance companies, advertising agencies, and more.
The sharp drop in retail sales in the United States and Europe means fewer orders for the goods produced in Chinese factories.
“Fordism” meant that workers had to be rich enough to buy a car from his factories.
The economic emancipation of women had to wait till after World War II, when permanent male labor shortages – the result, incidentally, of Keynesian full-employment policies – pulled ever more women out of domesticity and into factories and shops.
On May 15, without any instruction from trade unions, some workers spontaneously decide to strike and occupy their factories at an aeronautics plant in Bouguenais, and at a Renault factory in Cléon.
It is reported that some Russian factories depend exclusively upon Chinese orders.
Political leaders in EU capitals and the US may be well aware of China’s global economic importance, but the widespread public perception is that its factories are dirty and environmentally harmful.
These programs will keep China’s factories operating at high capacity to produce the investment goods needed for rapid growth in today’s low-income countries.
We can increase productivity in our factories and reduce food waste.
Foreign direct investment – financial flows to build foreign factories and acquire foreign companies – remains at pre-crisis levels.
Hundreds of factories have closed, driving up the unemployment rate to nearly 30%.
There are also industrial factories spewing smoke, charcoal braziers on the sidewalks keeping pavement dwellers warm, coal stoves used by roadside chaiwallahs (tea-sellers), and even the agricultural stubble burned by farmers in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana.
A rapid decline in exports has caused the closure of thousands of factories in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, and tens of millions of unemployed migrant workers are now returning to their hinterland provinces.
Young boys are forced into factories or the front lines of war.
The simple truth is that corporations represent capital, and capital – in the form of factories, equipment, machines, money, and even houses – has been the single biggest winner in the modern era of globalization.
While productivity in Japanese factories is the highest in the world, owing to robots and other types of automation, the productivity of Japan’s white-collar workers is the lowest among OECD countries.
For example, power plants can adopt solar energy or capture and safely dispose of the carbon dioxide they produce with fossil fuels – as can large factories.
There are roughly 58,000 factories in the Pearl River Delta with Hong Kong connections, and together they employ more than 10 million workers.
In East Asia, unskilled workers were put to work in urban factories, making several times what they earned in the countryside.
Thousands of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) expose human rights violations and promote social, economic, and legal standards aimed at benefiting those who toil in factories in poor countries.
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