1987 Industrial Joint Ventures ASEAN Regional Binding Adopted

An entrepreneur doesn't expect a regular paycheck.

(e) Pay The enterprise must remunerate the worker for the time spent on the job in the firm, while the National Employment Fund pays for the time spent on training

Resource owners should have a national management plan for each fishery indicating the share of the resources available for each activity (artisanal fishing, national industries, foreign industries).

(f) Mechanisms for distributing the sources for wages among various structural units in the enterprise

(e) Availability to trade unions of premises furnished by the enterprise to the extent of its resources

The general wage pattern in this sector is that of a large number of workers earning 10 to 20 per cent more than in enterprises of the same branch in the private sector.

(1) Establishing new enterprises in cooperation with other people, increasing or decreasing investment in enterprises that have been set up

62. The monitoring of the effective functioning of the minimum wage is exercised by labour inspectors who sometimes find cases of violation of this system in private establishments.

The Board is empowered to invest money in industrial and commercial undertakings, establish and operate commercial and industrial enterprises and develop immovable property.

In addition, the Ministry of Industry was focusing on the relocation of industries to rural areas, investment in SMEs and cottage industries with economic potential with a view to encouraging their participation in the international economy, and promoting and improving linkages between SMEs and main industries.

Enterprise resource planning

Creation of joint ventures

The Indian entity held 56 per cent stake.

Subsidized infrastructure and services are often provided for enterprises investing in export processing zones, enterprise zones or science parks.

Investment, enterprise and technology

C. Financing SMEs

The Act also provides that, where a mixed enterprise or enterprise funded solely with foreign capital considers that a particular worker does not meet its employment needs, it may ask the employment authority to replace him or her by another worker, without there being any legal protection.

No cases are reported of industrial establishments employing children.

In Bolivia, pilot agro industrial enterprises and other assets were transferred to the beneficiaries.

A number of joint ventures with foreign firms have been established by enterprises in the rocket and space sectors of industry.

Private employee

Without the consent of the investors of the custodian enterprise, the custody enterprise may not reorganize or restructure the custodian enterprise, transfer the custodian enterprise, assign the custodian assets or business, or provide guarantee to the outsiders in the name of the custodian enterprise or with the entrusted assets.

(c) The provision of business opportunities for local industry through joint ventures with companies from more developed countries.

It supported the programmes relating in particular to the strengthening of productive capacities, investment promotion, SMEs, agro industry and industrial competitiveness.

Investment and enterprise competitiveness

In this respect, access to finance for new and expanding firms greatly influences firm development and growth.

The beginning of joint ventures abroad by manufacturing SMEs can be traced back to two different time periods depending on the size of firms (medium sized versus small enterprises).

Half of the businesses have only one worker, and 98 have fewer than ten.

So in short, it's a do it yourself tool for small businesses to raise these funds.

Evidence shows that, compared to FDI from large enterprises, FDI from SMEs is more likely to lead to multiplier effects through linkages to local industry (UNCTAD 1998).

On the other hand, pupils of day schools who carry out their vocational training in school workshops or establishments (on the basis of a collective agreement between the school and the establishment) receive the so called equivalent, which, depending on the year of learning amounts to 9, 12 or 15 per cent of the average payment for an hour in six basic branches of the State economy.

In addition to its microfinance services, the microfinance and microenterprise programme continued to provide a number of business training and entrepreneurship courses through its small and microenterprise training programme.

(d) Ways of determining the sources for wages, various positions and coefficients for determining starting wages in enterprises being run from the State budget

Investment, technology and enterprise development

The importance of cooperation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in the areas of investment and enterprise development was also mentioned.

Human resource development is low and skilled labour and entrepreneurial capacity remain weak.

Experience shows that the development of subcontracting arrangements between large firms and SMEs can give an incentive for large firms to provide financial, technical and other assistance to SMEs.

The purpose of the Regulation respecting pay equity in enterprises where there are no predominantly male job classes is to provide two job classes that are typically male dominated to companies where no such classes exist, so they can complete their pay equity exercise.

The Chinese funded enterprises recruited on the spot are well known enterprises that have been operating in Philippines for many years.

SMEs investing abroad can normally be found among the more growth oriented SMEs.

Since the majority of SMEs investing abroad are looking for local SMEs to partner with, it is important that host countries encourage the development of their SME sectors so that local enterprises have the capability to form alliances or joint ventures with the investing SMEs from abroad (Cho 2003 UNCTAD 1998).

It supports the development of the microenterprise and small scale business sector by providing working capital and capital investment loan products.

In the Arab LDCs, UNIDO will pay special attention to SMEs, promoting investment and technology flows into the productive sectors, entrepreneurship development (with emphasis on rural and women's entrepreneurship), networking and effective clustering among SMEs, strengthening of agro based and agro related industries.

Outsourcing is used, among others, by enterprises seeking to take advantage of low wage countries.