transfers‚ and managerial expertise. Focused on labor-intensive manufacturing (Initially targeted four industries: ship repair/containers‚ metal engineering‚ chemicals and electrical equipment) Government’s actions Created efficient business environment to attract FDI o Investing in basic infrastructure - Government-owned companies -Jurong Township Corporation (JTC) o Tax incentive o Efficient bureaucracy o Educated labor workforce o Promoted international trade by - Removed
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AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM Pham Xuan Thu* * College of Foreign Economic Relations (VSR)‚ phamxuanthu@gmail.com ABSTRACT: Human resource development‚ particularly skilled human resource‚ will promote increasing added value‚ increasing labor productivity through technical expertise and the discipline equipped with a workforce as well as increasing efficiency of natural resources use through management capabily of the managing staff within the company. This leads to increase economic efficiency
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Human Resource Is The Most Important Asset of An Organization Assets‚ defined as a ‘valuable thing’ by Oxford Dictionaries‚ are key success determinants of any organization. The perception of value in an organization‚ brand or product‚ merits customer adoption while supplementing organizational goals that could‚ in the long term‚ determine financial sustainability and success of a company. The idea that human resources‚ employees across all levels of an organization‚ as the most important asset
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strenuous life‚ the life of toil and effort‚ of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes‚ not to the man who desires mere easy peace‚ but to the man who does not shrink from danger‚ from hardship‚ or from bitter toil‚ and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. ” An individual who puts great effort into his work and is not lazy‚ he claims‚ will be a success. It is the duty of someone who does not engage in manual labor for a living to devote himself to the arts
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well-trained‚ skilled labor force for white collar jobs. Another goal was to educate the future generation of voters. Also‚ by putting children of different cultures‚ nationalities and religions into schools‚ helped to unite people into a common belief of nationalism. The way to achieve these goals was to provide mandatory state-financed schools for children ages 6-12. This gave poor children the opportunity to get a primary education and the training needed for a skilled labor force and new job
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rahis@ukm.my Abstract: Globalisation is a process in which interlink between countries in the world has become more intense and the flow of inputs between one country to another is much easier. In the context of the labour market‚ the inflow of labor input from foreign countries is more relevant‚ because it has implications on the local labour‚ especially the females in terms of job opportunities. This paper attempts to investigate this issue using data from 261 single female headed households
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direction of trade. Consider the production of hand-made rugs and assembly line robots in Canada and India. Problem 1 Answer a) Which country would you expect to be relatively labor-abundant? Capital-abundant? Why? Labor-abundant: India. Capital-abundant: Canada b) Which industry would you expect to be relatively labor-intensive? Capital-intensive? Why? Handmade rugs: labour-intensive. Assembly line robots: capital-intensive c) Given your answers to (a) and (b)‚ draw representative production
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As a young girl‚ Harriet Jacobs was fortunate‚ or as fortunate as a child slave could be. Her first mistress was nicer than most common masters since she taught Harriet how to read and write until the age of 12‚ when her mistress died. She stated at one point that she was happy to work for her because‚ “No toilsome or disagreeable duties were imposed upon me. My mistress was so kind to me that I was always glad to do her bidding” (Jacobs 15). Literate slaves‚ though uncommon‚ did exist‚ however marginalized
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SWEATSHOP: INTRODUCTION & BRIEF HISTORY Sweatshop labor is a negative term that is used for the working environment that is very difficult and dangerous to work in. It is a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours and get very low pay and they work under extreme poor conditions. The shop or factory that violates more than 2 labor laws is a sweatshop. The main characteristics of sweatshop are low wages‚ poor working conditions‚ child labor‚ lack of employee benefits and unreasonable hours
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(Published in International Journal of Technical Cooperation‚ 4 (1)‚ Summer‚ 1998) CHILD LABOUR IN BANGLADESH Nasim Banu‚ Shahjahan Bhuiyan‚ Islamic University‚ Kushtia and Smita Sabhlok‚ University of Southern California In an increasingly integrated world‚ people feel more intimately connected with communities and processes in distant lands. Today the world seems to have high expectations and aspirations for its children‚ certainly higher than seeing them break bricks or straining their
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