Compared with neighbouring countries, labour in Syria is cheap.

So, they stopped having inexpensive labor.

Brazil and China, the main exporters of poultry meat, benefit from cheap feed prices and low labour costs.

Chicken feed. I want some real dough.

That the essence of what you're doing is you need ever cheaper labor, and ever faster machines.

The competitive edge of the poorest countries in terms of cheap labour was being subverted by moralistic approaches to labour conditions.

Reliance on cheap labour was not an option for sustainable development because this violated labour rights of the citizens.

Furthermore, the inflow of immigrant workers providing cheap labour to estate plantations was tolerated.

Now, the social difference among farmers is getting more acute, because the most powerful families are taking advantage of the more vulnerable ones, usually the returnees, whose labor power is rather cheap.

China s success has been driven by cheap exports based on cheap labor, infrastructure built by state enterprises with low cost bank funding, and government budgets funded by land sales. But labor is no longer cheap, road construction to connect major cities has given way to building large shopping malls in small towns, and land sales based on rezoning are reaching both economic limits and the limits of villagers tolerance.

It was such a high labor component to it that it made a lot of sense to go after that labor market.

Recently the issue of trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and cheap labour had been brought into sharp focus.

Their surplus low cost unskilled labourers should be allowed cross border mobility in order to help lift their families out of poverty, which remained the most daunting challenge to countries' collective wisdom.

According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), female workers are often preferred in labour intensive service industries because they are considered cheap and flexible labour.

Consequently, developing countries could no longer rely on their static resource endowments and low labour and factor costs to lead them to sustained growth and development.

quot Around the world, countries have been fighting each other to see which can offer the international corporations the cheapest labour and the lowest social and environmental costs.

57. Although trafficking of children is most commonly associated with prostitution, many children are in fact recruited as a cheap source of labour.

At the same time, Europe s leaders are under pressure from a new generation of voters, who grew up in the shadow of the Berlin Wall s collapse. The lifting of the Iron Curtain gave the West access to a vast supply of cheap labor in Eastern Europe.

This trend is being seen in almost all continents although it is still not possible to determine with certainty, as there are some countries that have attracted multinational capital with virtuous arguments and many others, at times the majority, that have attracted it with perverse arguments the cheapness of labour, deregulation of labour markets and absence of environmental regulation.

F. Evaluation of the domestic work done by women

Developing countries in the early stages of growth need to understand these trends. Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor intensive, process oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective way for early stage developing countries to enter the global economy.

Renewed efforts should be made to overcome the problem of low and unstable prices of commodities from developing countries.

Some had taken the view that the idea of volunteerism could be undermined by the expectation of financial gain or the idea that volunteers were a cheap labour alternative to United Nations staff.

Access to a cheap bandwidth would be an essential factor in economic development in the next century, just as inexpensive power was for the Industrial Revolution.

Moreover, Doing Business measures the burden of compliance with regulations, not their effectiveness. The indicators do not penalize a country that cheaply and expeditiously authorizes shoddy construction projects, dangerous imports, or abusive labor practices.

In the new global economy, which is awash with cheap labor, Western economies will not be able to compete in a race to the bottom, with firms seeking ever cheaper labor, land, and capital, and governments seeking to attract them by deregulating and shrinking social benefits.

The Netherlands, after its discovery of North Sea gas and oil, found itself plagued with growing unemployment and workforce disability (many of those who could not get jobs found disability benefits to be more generous than unemployment benefits.) When the exchange rate soars as a result of resource booms, countries cannot export manufactured or agriculture goods, and domestic producers cannot compete with an onslaught of imports.

77. Developing countries had also had to face unfavourable terms in the flow of manpower.

Better reception of migrant workers from the developing world in the developed countries would enhance the labour markets, easing the shortage of labour in the developed economies and reducing its surplus in developing countries.

Indeed, part of international investors attraction to countries like Vietnam and China is not simply that wages are low, but that the absence of democratic rights promises to lock in cheap labor for years to come. For example, when China revised its labor law in 2008, Apple, Hewlett Packard, and other members of the US China Business Council lobbied successfully to limit the expansion of Chinese workers rights.

The bulk of the world's labour force worked in the agricultural sector and three quarters of the working poor were in developing countries.

Cheap, huh?

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries will be able to absorb only limited numbers of surplus workers from labour exporting countries owing to current work nationalization policies.

Developing country processors have advantages over those in developed countries such as low labour costs, high quality and lower prices of raw materials.

Women constituted about half of the country's workforce and were its main food producers.

Concerns have been raised about the influx of cheap labor. But average GDP growth rates in the new members are twice as high as in the original members, and this can provide a welcome stimulus to stagnant labor markets and sluggish economies.

Cheap skulduggery.

Dimestore romance.

The State Labour Inspection supervises the compliance with these requirements pursuant to the Law On State Labour Inspection and Regulations of the CM On State Labour Inspection.

The essence of globalization free trade rests on the theory of comparative advantage, which views international trade as profitable even for a country that can produce every commodity more cheaply (in terms of labor or all resources) than any other country.

As seen from table 7, the lower labour costs in developing countries and countries in transition more than offset lower labour productivity, resulting in production costs that are significantly lower in these countries than in developed countries.

Dimestore romance,

National economic development schemes not only dispossess indigenous peoples of their lands, but also convert indigenous peoples into cheap labourers for industry because the exploitation of their lands and the environmental degradation have deprived them of their livelihood.

Something wonderful in a country where manual labor is often looked down upon.

With developing countries in particular, China, India, and the ex Soviet bloc bringing almost 1.5 billion workers into the world economy since the early 1990 s, it is not difficult to understand the potential impact of this effect. After all, much of this labor force was absorbed by labor intensive industries that eventually churned out products exported to the rest of the world.