Negative-footprint Chinese car of the future
Negative-footprint Chinese car of the future
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China booming? How long for?

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Increasingly polluted, operating in thin margins and with a growing staffing problem, China’s boom may be ready to burst anytime now…
The day China’s sweatshop workers rose up in mutiny and looted the plant | the Mail on Sunday
At the same time, Western firms, including companies such as Marks & Spencer and Primark, must consider relocating production to countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, India and Bangladesh, where labour costs are in some cases lower.
The coming job crisis in developing countries: youth’s lack of skills
This survey comes on the heels of the India Labour Report 2007, which does not paint a very pretty picture. It has found that 90 per cent of Indian youth are unemployable. For a country currently experiencing a demographic bulge, with a large part of its population under 35, this is not good news. The majority of quality jobs in India are skill-based, which most young people lack. Only 8 per cent of Indian youth are unemployed, but lack of vocational skills means that more than half of Indian graduates earn less than Rs 75,000 a year.
A major cause of this skill shortage is that only a very small percentage of children who complete the primary level of education continue to the diploma level.
From the article “The future is young”
