labour-intensive


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Synonyms for labour-intensive

requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

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'Other factors include the increase of labour costs in Malaysia especially for foreign labour in labour-intensive fields, as well as Malaysia's preference to focus on high-tech and high quality investment,' Ong said.
In December 2017, the SBP had announced a policy for the promotion of SME finance with nine key pillars embracing every facet of labour-intensive SME activity and the required impetus the sector needs to grow faster.
Economic development in Pakistan has entailed transfer of resources from agriculture to the urban organised sector or from a labour-intensive to a capital-intensive sector.
PCJCCI was making concerted efforts to highlight and invite labour-intensive industries of China to
Speaking to Daily News Egypt on Tuesday, Salman said that he met with Al-Jaber last Sunday, and agreed on pumping the Emirati investments into labour-intensive projects to create youth employment.
Egypt's Social Fund for Development (SFD) has signed Thursday four contracts for labour-intensive infrastructure projects in a number of contracts, said Minister of Industry and Trade and the fund's Supervisor Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour.
In an interview with newsmen, he said that labour-intensive industries like construction works and projects similar to those of the Villar Foundation will give a new lease of life to the displaced Filipinos.
The following sectors would be added to the list of sectors able to be subject to a reduced rate (from 1 January 2011): restaurant services (a long-standing request from the French government); housing (all housing and related services, such as renovation and upkeep); a series of labour-intensive and locally-provided services, such as repairs of goods, cleaning and upkeep of these goods, hairdressing and beauty treatment, gardening and maintenance of places of worship and of cultural heritage; the list of pharmaceutical products is specified and slightly extended.
The LJ/SRT Robotic Top Loader brings automation to the labour-intensive, and sometimes not very pleasant, task of collating and packing by hand bags of frozen, or other prepared food, into cartons.
The original system on the mobile equipment was labour-intensive and susceptible to damage, especially when workers were manipulating the machine by remote control to the stope areas, Sullivan says.
Under Soviet cultural influence, the labour-intensive traditional brick and tile vaulting of the schools was declared to be counter-revolutionary (prefabricated concrete panel systems were to be preferred for all forms of public construction).
He admits that organic farming is often more labour-intensive than conventional farming, particularly for fruit and vegetables.
It may seem that such a labour-intensive process would dominate the film, becoming its focal point, but Carl is not manipulating the film's surface as a means unto itself.
This volume is explores the relationship between industrialization and employment, in general, and between the latter and development of labour-intensive industries in ASEAN countries, in particular.