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capital intensive
These examples range from wealthy, large-scale, capital-intensive, export-oriented farms to small-scale, labor-intensive, severely impoverished farms.
Thus, the positive externality is stronger when capital intensity is high, whereas the negative externality has larger effects when the economy is less capital-intensive.
This suggests that restrictions on capital-intensive gears can create additional employment with fairly low efficiency costs, in terms of reduced output.
They range from extensive, small-scale subsistence use to capital-intensive farming.
The reason is that non-food manufacturing, which as noted above accounts for the majority of hazardous wastes, is also a relatively capital-intensive sector.
Farmers in developing countries are more vulnerable to climate impacts precisely because they have less capital-intensive technologies and management practices.
In general, larger, more capital-intensive operations should be positively correlated with use.
In comparison to sewer and street construction, the supply of water is an extremely capital-intensive activity.
Farmers may reject the capital-intensive technology of advanced economies due to its incompatibility with the existing level of farm technology.
The farms associated with these systems tend to be large-scale, capital-intensive and oriented toward commodity markets.
Higher wages and reduced employment have meant that the productivity of labour has risen, and the economy has become more capital-intensive.
Rich landowners, on the other hand, typically spend incremental income on imports and capital-intensive manufactures.
The developed countries would specialize towards human capital and manufactured capital-intensive activities.
Both of these policies move catches towards the beginning of the fishing year and reduce the use of the most capital-intensive gears.
While capital-intensive industries gained support, labour-intensive industries may have been the more deserving.
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