Furthermore, from the point of view of the global economy, labour is a resource, like land or oil.

ECONOMIST: World economy

Around 60m Europeans set sail for the resource-rich and labour-scarce Americas in the century following 1820, three-fifths of them to the United States.

ECONOMIST: Business books (5)

The money raised should be used to reduce significantly taxes on labour, our most renewable resource.

ECONOMIST: Change of environment

So tight is the labour market that the economy of western Wyoming is suffering a first-world version of the resource curse.

ECONOMIST: Natural gas in Wyoming

The documentary features interviews with John Barnard, head of resource strategies at Devon County Council, Labour MP and former secretary of state for Children, Schools and Families, Ben Bradshaw, the MP for Exeter and Sanet Steenkamp, acting director of education for Ohangwena in North Central Namibia.

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