Early high growth economies Japan, South Korea, Taiwan initially exported labor intensive products, then graduated to more capital intensive goods like motor vehicles, and then to human capital intensive activities like design and technology development.

For one thing, technology intensive warfare substitutes machines for soldiers, reducing the number of American casualties.

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

Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology intensive industries.

Making matters worse, African exports to China are even less technology intensive than its exports to the world.

At the same time, the US should reconsider antiquated Cold War restrictions on Chinese purchases of technology intensive items.

More than half of all manufactured goods consumed in the US are made abroad, particularly low technology, mass produced labor intensive products.

Moreover, there must be greater balance between capital intensive and labor intensive activities.

Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care The Association publishes the Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care.

In the past, the US brought a large open market, foreign direct investment, and technology, while China supplied low cost labor intensive components in key global manufacturing supply chains.

IIA standards require that internal auditors should make adequate use of technology based audit techniques to enable them, inter alia, to perform manually intensive tasks more economically and efficiently.

An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.

During the entire period, R D spending grew significantly faster than global output, reflecting both increasing government support and a rising share of technology intensive industries in global production and trade.

Information has become much more than a message conveyed by technology it is now the raw material of services intensive advanced economies, and the building block of modern social and productive organizations.

In response to demand for vegetables in the tourism sector and the increasing number of retail outlets, an increasing number of small farmers have invested in drip irrigation technology for intensive farming.

The IDR process is resource intensive.

But encouraging labor intensive industries, which create jobs for the poor, must not be at the expense of capital intensive industries.

Labor intensive industries were especially hard hit.

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

But more intensive consideration could change people s mind.

Any service intensive industry faces the same challenges.

Business services are knowledge intensive, allow for technology diffusion and are an important source of productivity growth. Their outsourcing is particularly important for SMEs, as it allows them to focus their limited internal resources on core functions.

However, primary products were a declining component of developing country trade in the 1990s, continuing a trend begun in the 1980s, and the concomitant rising share of manufactures has included medium and high skill and technology intensive products.

These jobs are strenuous, labour intensive and time consuming.

Effective monitoring and evaluation are time and resource intensive.

They actively promote carbon intensive energy and deter green investment.

The government, of course, is the consummate service intensive sector.

Intensive lifestyle measures may reduce the risk by over half.

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

Yet services offer more than just a labor intensive growth path.

A second, less intensive phase followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

The program includes intensive behavioural intervention training and applied behavioural analysis.

Labor intensive industries in the tradable sector must be allowed to decline.

For example, China s labor intensive export sectors are losing their competitive edge.

The city is also seeking less energy intensive designs for new buildings.

Genes are difficult to maintain, requiring subtle and energy intensive correcting processes.

These countries have successfully stimulated labour intensive reforestation programmes in the wetlands.

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.

In a context of rapid liberalization, declining shares of manufacturing employment and output and a downgrading to less technology intensive activities were common trends Commodity dependent exporters Many poorer economies, particularly in sub Saharan Africa, remained heavily dependent on one or two commodity exports.

And, while military innovation has been spectacular, it is still very labor intensive.

This is because manufactured exports are typically more labor intensive than investment projects.

In a similar way, transportation can become less energy intensive without restricting mobility.

China s intensive economic monetization is a key factor driving its money supply growth.

In hospitals it is also used in monitoring chronic patients in intensive care.

That council's composition and mandate should be the subject of further intensive consultations.