The loan component of MyMela offers visitors to our site the chance to make zero-interest loans to artisan groups who use these funds to make capital improvements, buy raw materials and train other workers.

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Workers pumped raw materials into one end of his River Rouge plant and drove Model Ts out the other.

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By and large, British savings were financing mines, railways and frontier expansion in the New World so that it could produce food for British workers and raw materials for British factories.

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Now, pay is supposed to be linked to output, though becoming more productive is not easy for desk-bound civil servants or workers in factories that have no power, raw materials or markets.

ECONOMIST: North Korea

This bureaucracy is charged with the job of securing supplies of raw materials so Chinese industry can keep humming--and paying otherwise restless workers.

FORBES: Heads Up

Workers are hired and both at the facilities created and at downstream facilities supplying the raw materials and durable good.

FORBES: Obama's Accelerating Downward Spiral For America

Suppliers may not be ready to deliver raw materials, cash holdings may be stretched be the need to pay bills before revenue is received, and skilled workers may not be readily available.

FORBES: Forecast for the Wood Products Industry, 2013