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A. EDUCATIONAL FACTORS
1. Literacy level: the percentage of the total population and those presently
employed in industry who can read, write and do simple arithmetic
calculations and the average years of schooling of adults.
2. Specialized vocational and technical training and general secondary
education: extent, types and quality of education and training of this type
not directly under the control or direction of industrial enterprises. The
type quantity and quality of persons obtaining such education or training
and the proportion of those employed in industry with such education and
training.
3. Higher education: the percentage of the total population and those
employed in industry with post high school education, plus the types and
quality of such education. The types of persons obtaining higher
education.
4. Special management development programs: the extent and quality of
management development programs which are not run internally by
productive enterprises, and which are aimed at improving the skills and
abilities of managers and for potential managers. The quantity and quality
of managers and potential managers of different types and levels attending
or having completed such programs.
5. Attitude toward education: the general or dominant cultural attitudes
towards education and the acquisition of knowledge, in terms of its
presumed desirability. The general attitude toward different types of
education.
6. Education match with requirements: the extent and degree to which the
types of formal education and training available in a given country fit the
needs of productive enterprises on all levels of skill and achievement. This
is essentially a summary category, depending on the type of job involved,
different educational constraints indicated above would be more
important.
SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS
ECONOMIC FACTORS
16. Market size: total effective purchasing power within the country, plus
relevant export markets.
17. Central banking system and monetary policy: the organization and
operations of the central banking system, including the controls over
commercial banks, the ability and willingness to control the money
supply, the effectiveness of government, policies, regarding price stability,
commercial bank reserves, discounting, credit controls, and similar
factors.
18. Fiscal policy: general policies concerning government expenditures, their
timing, and their impact; the general level of deficit, surplus, or balance;
total share of government expenditures in gross national product (GNP).
19. Economic stability: the vulnerability of the economy o economic
fluctuations of depression and boom, price, stability, and overall economic
growth stability.
20. Organization of capital markets: the existence of such markets as stock
and bond exchanges, their honesty, effectiveness, and total impact; the
size and role of commercial banking, including loan policies and
availability of credit to businessmen; the existence of other capital
sources, such as savings and loan associations, government sponsored
credit agencies, insurance company loan activities, etc.
21. Factor endowment: relative-supply of capital and land (agricultural and
raw materials) per capita; size and general health of the work force.
22. Social overhead capital: availability and quality of power supplies, water,
communication systems, transportations, public warehousing, physical
transfer facilities, housing, etc.
23. Competition: number of competitors; degree of competition vs.
cooperation; government attitudes towards monopoly and oligopoly.
24. Relevant legal rules of the game: quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of
the legal structure in terms of general business law, labor law, tax law, and
general law relevant to business. Degree of enforcement, reliability, etc.
25. Defense policy: impact of defense policy on industrial enterprise in terms
of trading with potential enemies, purchasing policies, strategic industry
development, labor and resource competition, and similar factors.
26. Foreign policy: impact of policy on industrial enterprise in terms of
trading restrictions, quotas, tariffs, customs unions, foreign exchange, etc.
27. Political organization: type of organization, in constitutional terms;
degrees of centralization or decentralization; degree and extent of red tape,
delays, uncertainty and confusion in industry-government dealings;
pressure groups and their effectiveness.
28. Government attitudes toward private enterprise: ideology vs. pragmatism;
the mixed economy; relative political strengths of business vs. labor
unions vs. agricultural workers.
29. Political stability: influence on industrial enterprises of revolutions,
changes I regime, stability or instability over protracted periods, etc.
INTERNATIONAL FACTORS