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A switch to an outward-oriented strategy, based upon the export of labor-intensive manufactured goods, would have required devaluations so extreme as to be politically impossible.
On the supply side, rising opportunity costs of family labor lead to declining returns to labor-intensive subsistence production systems.
Our approach, therefore, may have to be balanced against a more labor-intensive consensus approach.
Along the way, however, a good portion of the considerable labor-intensive resources devoted to collection of the necessary field data will probably have been wasted.
They face competitive prices in both output and factor markets, so they have to maximize their benefits subject to a labor-intensive technology.
It is more favorable for the most labor-intensive sectors and for those where social security contributions are highest.
Compared with typical crosssectional studies examining families at one point in time, repeated family observations and examination of within-family covariation is a labor-intensive research strategy.
In contrast to large-scale commercial fisheries, artisanal fisheries are owner-operated and labor-intensive, employing rudimentary technologies.