Sentences with phrase «with low labour costs»

Sebastian Runde, an organic farmer says they have managed to produce a shirt that is made 100 % in Italy: «Producing the T - shirts abroad in a country with low labour costs was out of question».

Many fashion companies have shifted production to markets with low labour costs and limited protections for workers» rights.

For games made in countries with lower labour costs or with strong subsidies for digital industry, like CD PROJEKT's The Witcher series growing into a behemoth, the risk is smaller (not to mention they own GOG, an actual games platform of their own).

(See Weber Thompson and Chris Hardwicke) Yet millions of acres of agricultural land in North America and Britain have been taken out of production, their output replaced with imports from nations with lower labour costs and more sunlight.

Not exact matches

So - called legacy carriers struggle to compete in a world filled with low - cost upstarts like Southwest and JetBlue, along with new international carriers like Emirates Airlines, which enjoy far lower labour costs than their North American rivals.

Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

Add in all the perks of producing at home — such as eliminating exchange rate uncertainty, lower chances of supply chain disruptions, a more plentiful supply of qualified labour and the synergies that develop when the R&D guys can easily chat with factory floor employees — and the overall costs of building a new factory in the U.S. or China are roughly equal.

It's contribution to the national economy in this regard is unmatched, and its efficiency at providing those services is largely unrewarded — high - volumes with very low labour costs i.e. few BC jobs and wages.

Labour - intensive manufacturers that could automate did so, and firms that could not moved their operations to countries with much lower wage costs.

U.S. softwood lumber production is on the rise, with more Canadian - owned sawmills located in the U.S. than in Canada due to lower labour costs, higher timber availability, and higher demand.

The combination of this competitive job market with a lower cost of living than many Western countries means many Chinese workers are willing to work for less, which presents an opportunity for global companies to save on labour costs.

Their growth was accelerated by a rapid increase in exports to industrialised countries with whom they successfully competed thanks to low labour costs.

Despite high volumes, Australia's historically commodity - based markets have low margins, with high labour costs decreasing competitiveness and significant competition in saturated markets driving down prices.

Planned birth at home in low risk women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour was associated with significant cost savings and a significant decrease in adverse perinatal outcomes avoided.

Fig 2 Cost effectiveness plane: planned birth at home compared with planned birth in obstetric units for nulliparous low risk women without complicating conditions at start of care in labour

For low risk women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour, the mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios associated with switches from planned birth in obstetric unit to non-obstetric unit settings fell in the south west quadrant of the cost effectiveness plane (representing, on average, reduced costs and worse outcomes).25 The mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios ranged from # 143382 (alongside midwifery units) to # 497595 (home)(table 4 ⇓).

In this study of the cost effectiveness of alternative planned places of birth in England in women at low risk of complications before the onset of labour, we found that the cost of intrapartum and after birth care, and associated related complications, was less for births planned at home, in a free standing midwifery unit, or in an alongside midwifery unit compared with planned births in an obstetric unit.

The benefits of the agreement are twofold, Labour gaining candidates with lower election costs and the party gaining influence within a Labour movement.

Ed Miliband has at least taken advice and given the correct answer to the strike we do not like strikes and we think they should get around the table but we do understand why people are striking, they are striking because they are agreeing with labour the cost of living crises is attacking the low paid and the professional teachers and nurses.

Combining exceptional component longevity with low parts pricing and the reduced labour costs resultant from short service times, Toyota Auris HSD maintenance costs over 100,000 km are highly competitive.

Combining low parts pricing with short service times and hence, reduced labour costs, Auris HSD maintenance costs over 100,000 km are remarkably reasonable.

They enjoy some key advantages — younger / faster growing populations (with far lower entitlements), labour costs that are a fraction of developed market costs, control of a major portion of the world's natural resources, low / stable debt ratios, a 50 % share of world GDP, and GDP growth expected to be twice that of developed markets.

... In countries with relatively low educational attainment, skilled labour is scarce and hence its real cost is higher than in countries with advanced educational systems.

Following the training, workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the regions that provide offshore services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labour costs.

Finally, reliant as it is on volunteer labour and with only an annual meeting of all delegates, the ULCC has a rather lower budget than any «permanent» (I use the term loosely) provincial law commission, all of which have a permanent staff, however small, and the general costs of an on - going enterprise that releases full reports.