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23. largely self-sufficient and trade will be starting to flow the other way. However, for GTC investors, the company’s recent restructure could herald better times. The group’s lack of focus and lack-lustre returns have been much criticized of late. Central America will, in the future, begin to export less to Europe. C F Central American producers will find a ready market for their products in Europe. C Restructuring generally produces an increase in profitability. C The increasing fragility of the rural economy will be the biggest challenge facing country communities over the next ten years. Agriculture, which accounts for a quarter of rural job, is in decline. Tourism provides no more than half this number of job. The rural manufacturing sector, however, has grown over last ten years. Despite this, it still employs fewer than one in twenty people living in rural area, and is threatened by companies based in industrial areas, which benefit from access to a larger skilled workforce and better transportation networks. Industries based in rural areas benefit from better transport links. F Manufacturing provides the fewest jobs in the countryside. C The manufacturing sector is likely to be the main source of employment for rural workers in the future. C Industries based in rural areas suffer from poorer transport links. T In recent years, many issues have been considered when attempting to ameliorate the wellbeing of patients and the efficiency of hospital administration. Patients have often complained about endless waiting lists, low standards of cleanliness, poor hospital food, and unsatisfactory doctor-patient communication and now, according to an expert from a leading image consultancy, doctors’ dress codes and their general appearance must come under close scrutiny. Of healthcare professionals have an unwashed appearance, dirty nails or unkempt hair, this exudes the impression of recklessness, wearing red reminds patients of blood, and power dressing is discouraged because patients may feel undermined and less relaxed. Although campaign groups approve of healthcare professionals leading by example with high standards of hygiene in hospitals, some individuals argue that this potential new image legislation is merely a case of jumping on the bandwagon of the current media trend for home and lifestyle makeovers. Individuals have argued that the current media trend for lifestyle makeover is direct result of the concern over the image of new legislations. F New hospital legislation states that healthcare professionals must have clean fingernails. T It is always preferable for healthcare professionals to wear blue instead of red. C One of the great paradoxes of entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs must develop the
capacity to engage the urgent with the emergent. Routine pressures force us to allow the urgent to dominate us, quarterly reports, market share, and tangible return on investment become paramount in this paradox, emergent (strategic) issues are often lost.