Rich countries, by contrast, are able to export more capital intensive goods, and thus have a greater need for investment. So they may be importing more capital resulting in a greater current account deficit simply because they are producing more capital intensive goods.

Technical options for waste water treatment range from capital intensive conventional treatment systems to alternative systems with lower capital costs.

But it also skews decisions in favour of capital intensive enterprise and away from labour intensive activities more likely to benefit the poor.

These changes involve replacement of capital stock and avoiding long term, carbon intensive technology lock in.

I mean, these sort of top down, mono functional, capital intensive solutions are really not going to cut it.

More capital intensive options could include building water reservoirs to ensure reliable water supplies, with appropriate environmental safeguards in place.

Desalination of salt water is another capital intensive option, which is used particularly in water scarce areas and for high value uses.

A country s production structure may very well determine how much capital it supplies and how much it needs. So the fact that capital may flow towards rich countries that produce and export more capital intensive goods should not be so puzzling, after all.

As a result, these labor intensive sectors must release a lot of labor and capital, which push into the capital intensive export sectors that are better able to cope with high wages. But, while these sectors therefore grow especially fast, their high capital intensity means that they cannot fully employ the released labor, with the result that some of the unemployed workers have nowhere to turn but the welfare state.

Entry barriers, particularly in service industries dominated by state owned oligopolies, need to be lowered. Distortions in key prices that favor capital intensive manufacturing need to be removed by raising the cost of land, energy, water, and capital.

Many might doubt the view that China is exporting more labor intensive goods, rather than upgrading its exports on the capital and skill intensity ladder. But trade data suggest the opposite, perhaps because China s accession to the WTO led to tariff reductions that released more labor intensive production.

3.3 The authors recall that after heavy snows in 1997, herders had for the first time to supply capital and labour intensive fodder for the reindeer rather than rely on lichen.

But manufacturing today is not what it used to be. It has become much more capital and skill intensive, with greatly diminished potential to absorb large amounts of labor from the countryside.

Water is energy intensive.

Production will not vanish it will just be less labor intensive. All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

This pattern contrasts with that of the United States and many other advanced countries, which have experienced a deterioration of their current account balances as their production and exports have become more capital intensive.

Services are in many respects the infrastructure of a consumer society in China s case, providing the basic utilities, communications, retail outlets, health care, and finance that its emerging middle class is increasingly demanding. They are also labor intensive in China, services require about 30 more jobs per unit of output than do capital intensive manufacturing and construction.

Puerto Rico s current troubles trace their origin to the gradual withdrawal, starting in 1996, of earlier exemptions from US corporate taxes for companies located on the island. Capital intensive companies, especially pharmaceutical firms, began leaving.

It 's less computationally intensive.

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

They graze everything down, intensive grazing.

But it was very labor intensive.

It's a big labor intensive effort.

The IDR process is resource intensive.

For physical goods, there are costs associated with logistics and lead times, owing to inventories and poor forecasts of the market. With digital capital intensive technology, however, production will inevitably move toward the final market, wherever it is.

China has witnessed rapid growth in the processing trade assembling intermediate inputs imported from countries like the US and Japan that have high capital and skill content. So, while the exports of these final goods may count towards China s own capital and skill content, the country s real role was only in the labor intensive process of assembly.

The school solution, agreed at the Financial Stability Board in Basel, is that global regulators should clearly identify systemically significant banks and impose tougher regulations on them, with more intensive supervision and higher capital ratios. That has been done.

This has allowed advanced economies, in turn, to produce and export more capital intensive, higher value added products. Globalization of trade enabled countries to tap the efficiency gains that specialization in their sectors of comparative advantage has brought about.

Furthermore, the prevalence of peace creates an opportunity for a turning point, an opportunity that can be seized thought capital intensive programmes for the social and economic infrastructure needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to sustain peace.

Covered wagons were not cheap. Even in the first post WWII generation, only a minority of Americans a largely white, male minority found well paying stable jobs at large, unionized, capital intensive manufacturing companies like GM, GE, or AT T.

Economists conventional description depicts high finance as providing us with three types of utility. First, it allows for many savers to pool their wealth to finance large enterprises that can achieve the efficiencies of scale possible from capital intensive modern industry.

The benefits of FDI had not been forthcoming, partly owing to its capital intensive nature, and only a very small portion of exports related to FDI accrued to the host countries as a result of the race to the bottom incentives.

The governance structure of INFOCAP is resource intensive.

By contrast, if a country attempts to defy its comparative advantage, such as by adopting an import substitution strategy to pursue the development of capital intensive or high tech industries in a capital scarce economy, the government may resort to distortional subsidies and protections that dampen economic performance. In turn, this risks weakening both the government s fiscal position and the economy s external account.

Some are structural saving is high globally, especially in Asia but also in Europe, where aging countries like Germany put money aside for retirement. At the same time, the new digital economy is less capital intensive than the old brick and mortar economy.

Skill and capital intensive technologies are the leading culprit behind the rise in inequality since the late 1970s. By all indications, this trend is likely to continue, producing historically unprecedented levels of inequality and the threat of widespread social and political conflict.

That is not true of India, where exports are still mainly skill and capital intensive. Economic reform clearly has made the Indian corporate sector more vibrant and competitive, but most of the Indian economy is not in the corporate sector (public or private).

They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.

Effective monitoring and evaluation are time and resource intensive.

LDCs' comparative advantage is in exports of labour intensive services.

The largest scope for renewed private investment is in capital intensive sectors in which government has a major presence as regulator. Even if European countries were to close only 10 of the variation in capital stock per worker at the subsector level, the impact could be more than 360 billion in additional investment offsetting the 354 billion difference in private investment between 2007 and 2011.

Recent technological advances have three biases They tend to be capital intensive (thus favoring those who already have financial resources) skill intensive (thus favoring those who already have a high level of technical proficiency) and labor saving (thus reducing the total number of unskilled and semi skilled jobs in the economy). The risk is that robotics and automation will displace workers in blue collar manufacturing jobs before the dust of the Third Industrial Revolution settles.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital. All of these are productive, but each has a distinctive role.

During the crisis, the level of banking activity fell particularly strongly in capital intensive areas such as traditional lending to the private sector. The effect was especially pronounced in lending to non financial companies, whereas lending to households an area with traditionally lower internationalization remained more robust.

It is most often lauded for supplying new jobs. But billions of dollars in tax subsidies would create plenty of new jobs in almost any sector the point is that many less capital intensive sectors would create many more jobs for a given investment of taxpayers money.