Entrepreneurs are encouraged to undertake many longer-term, more capital intensive projects than they ought not, but which appear profitable.
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Managing 15 assistants and overseeing his many labor-intensive projects requires creativity as well as equal parts discipline, precision and consistency.
Businesses scramble to borrow money to construct these capital-intensive projects, which appear to be profitable, creating huge demand for industrial commodities.
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Doing so will help provide much needed certainty to invest in capital-intensive projects such as power plants that operate for 40 years or longer.
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In the recent past, cleantech was dominated by large, capital-intensive projects.
The business of laying fibre-optic cable, both terrestrially and under the sea, used to be the preserve of incumbent telecoms operators sharing the burden of capital-intensive projects.
Innovative financing ideas and partnerships can help us reap the benefits of capital-intensive projects, such as energy retrofits, without the need to provide the upfront capital required for construction.
Tom Watson, Jr. constantly battled his father, the founder of IBM, over investments in new technologies and eventually prevailed, shifting the giant into electronic computers and other capital-intensive projects that eventually paid off.
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Previously limited to the labour-intensive manufacture of light-industrial goods such as toys, pens or shoes, private enterprises can now muster the wherewithal to invest in capital-intensive projects such as car factories and steel plants.
These firms in turn favour capital-intensive investment projects, which add more to the output figures than to the payrolls.
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Since most emerging economies lack broad unemployment insurance, the main way they help the jobless is through labour-intensive government infrastructure projects as well as conditional cash transfers for the poorest.
It would create few jobs, a fact that turns off many African politicians, who tend to like national projects to be labour-intensive.
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Each of these LNG projects is extremely capital-intensive.
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From 2011 to 2013, two intensive field training courses and several pilot field projects are organised.
Under the so-called Family Intervention Projects, they will be given intensive 24-hour supervision to make sure children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.
The aluminium smelter and power plant projects are part of a larger plan to industrialize northeastern Iceland with energy-intensive industries, first dreamed up in the 1950s and pursued by successive governments without review.
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