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...country seems to be giving away any competitive advantage it once had by way of a cheap labor force. Minimum wages in Indonesia have grown rapidly?in Jakarta, by nearly 40% this year alone?and now are higher than in more developed Thailand, relative to each country's per capita income. Unions are now pushing for ill-conceived labor laws that call for employers to pay workers whenever they go on strike?effectively forcing manufacturers to underwrite crippling work stoppages at their own factories...
...waters. Production has jumped from just 17,000 barrels per day in 1996 to more than 220,000 and could grow another 50% within three years. The oil boom has fueled fantastic economic growth - 65% last year, down to an estimated 25% this year - and pushed annual per capita GDP from $800 seven years ago to more than $2,000 today. The bonanza in Equatorial Guinea is being repeated across the region. Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, will soon start pumping more than 200,000 barrels of oil a day through a $3.7 billion...
REINHARDT: Another reason is, this system is administratively very expensive. We spend $390 less per capita on health care than Germany because our clinicians are very efficient, but we spend $360 more per capita on administration. In other words, everything we squeeze out of the clinicians, we blow on administration...
...live with this. Some cannot." Slovenia is another country with good reason to wonder whether the E.U. is all it's cracked up to be. The Slovene economy is already a favorite of Western investors, with modernized laws and 4% growth. It's doing so well that its per capita GDP of $16,000 is already 69% of the E.U. average - which sounds great but could turn out to be a problem. When per capita GDP hits 75%, expected in 2004, Slovenia will be disqualified from access to the structural subsidies that would otherwise flow from E.U. membership...
...turn, Romney faulted O’Brien for failing to fulfill her promise to lower the per capita state debt, which he said is now the highest of any state in the nation...