Industrial nations can at best give a developing country a shallow surface insight into their know-how, and even then only in the context of foreign investment deals in which developed countries that host foreign direct investment inflows skilfully negotiate and secure such agreements, and have skilled workforces to absorb and expand on such prowess.
Having evolved to produce more specialist, lighter steels, though, these companies require much smaller workforces.
It was put to the prime minister that a way to make firms and public sector employers do the right thing would be to compel them to publish statistics detailing the diversity of their workforces.
I anticipate Shah being brilliant on violence against women, West being great on the fact that low wages, while not a "female" problem, nevertheless are particularly hard to shift in female-dominated workforces, and Huq being a very significant voice in terms of the effect it has on women when racist and "othering" discourses become normal in debates about migration and asylum.
Organised criminal groups appear to be targeting large companies which have large, low-paid workforces who are likely to claim tax credits.
Their workforces do not have a collective voice.
Only 10 years previously, dockers had marched in support of the Conservative politician Enoch Powell, and workforces had polarised along racial lines at Mansfield Hosiery Mills in Nottinghamshire and Imperial Typewriters in Leicester.
Mobile mental health already has the capacity to revolutionise the way we evaluate, monitor and treat mental illness, especially in poorer countries where mental health workforces barely exist.
Google and PayPal, which also use Ireland as a bridgehead into the European market, increased their workforces during the worst years of the recession.
Foreign firms came to Britain for flexible workforces.
The second is ageing economies; workforces are set to shrink in the developed world and it is very hard to grow an economy with fewer workers.
