To measure a country's progress, economists usually look at gross domestic product, employment, exports and other predictable data points.
Jens A. Jorgensen,Brussels Paperwork and expatriates President Obama can help achieve his key objectives of boosting employment, exports and education by implementing policies that increase the number of Americans working abroad.
"The government repeatedly told us that if chaebol grow, so will employment, exports and our country's credit ratings, and the benefit will trickle down to us," said Hong Ji-gwang, 47, owner of a cosmetics shop who is leading a campaign to drive a Home Plus hypermarket out of the Hapjeong district in Seoul.
The global economy is now literally in free fall as the contraction of consumption, capital spending, residential investment, production, employment, exports and imports is accelerating rather than decelerating.
The significant roles the auto sector plays in employment, exports and industrial production have heightened the political importance of responding to their vulnerabilities, which have been exacerbated by the credit crunch, prompting rescue packages including bridge loans, incentives to purchase domestic vehicles and increases in tariffs on imported cars and auto parts.
Electronics and related industries have been a major source of economic growth, employment, and export earnings.
Its production, employment and export indexes increased, and while new orders declined, this category remained above 50.
Should approval be granted the company, which hopes to boost local employment, will export its first shipment to Canada in 2016.
New orders and the backlog of orders contracted across a range of sectors, as did employment, imports, export orders and overall business activity.
The labor-market reforms that led the German economy to greater competitiveness, with employment and export figures that are the envy of a stagnant Continent, also pared back the social-welfare state and forced many into low-paying jobs.
