Despite high levels of female education and workforce participation, Myanmar is a patriarchal society in which men tend to dominate decisions that affect their family, but are restricted by social norms that consider MNCH to be a women-only domain.
Explaining why Britain can still compete with emerging economies as a manufacturing base, EEF's Prothero said: "For higher value-added goods you have to look at skills and the UK provides a high level of skilled workforce.
The post-World War II period is marked by relatively high levels of female participation in the workforce, particularly in industrialized countries.
Lastly, duality in the labour market insulates workers under permanent contracts (around 67 70 % of the workforce with high levels of employment protection) from business cycle fluctuations.
And by causing a large-scale decay of skills in the workforce, the high levels of long-term unemployment could be bad news for the economy as well, according to economists cited by the International Business Times.
For example, businesses with an involved workforce demonstrate high levels of engagement and are always eager to take up new challenges to create a positive change or set up an extremely conducive work environment.
A quarter of South Korea's workforce suffers from high levels of stress, according to the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association.
In 2004, the company saw that its workforce were suffering high levels of malaria, meaning that many of them were off sick at any one time.
First, it must be noted that not everybody is participating in the paid workforce, since there are still high levels of unemployment in many countries.
'John Howard's Australia, with its high levels of immigration, close ties with Asia, booming wages, record workforce participation for women and record spending on health and welfare is a long way from the country imagined by his critics.
