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Transportation and Employment
LAND
TRANSPORTATION
Today in Ecuador: almost 2 million vehicles: particular use
Increased rental cars (taxis and vans).
Public transport:
Growth has been much smaller.
Consumes less in proportion to the number of passengers it transports.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Main causes: Drivers' negligence and imprudence (34%), speeding (16%), wrong overtaking (9.7%)
Highest number of victims Pichincha (23.6%) Guayas (20.6%)
Guayas 28%
Pichincha 26%
AIR TRANSPORTATION
ARRIVALS Quito: Bogota, Miami and Lima. Guayaquil: Miami, New York, Madrid and Panama.
Domestic flights: Linking small cities and Amazon capitals to main cities.
International Airports: Quito - Guayaquil
International cargo: export of fish, shellfish and flowers.
MARITIME TRANSPORTATION
International Cargo
-Strategic meands of transportation for bananas, cocoa, coffee, and other products.
-Imports of goods: machinery and raw materials for manufactures.
Ports
-Guayaquil is the most important.
-Other ports are: Puerto Bolívar, Esmeraldas and Manta.
IMPORTANCE
Society has to cover basic needs to live a dignified existence: EMPLOYMENT.
Being employed means having a paid job that provides the income that will cover the needs.
EMPLOYMENT
& NATIONAL ECONOMY
Secondary Sector has grown and generated employment in trade
Tertiary sector generates employment in services tourism, educational and health
Primary Sector is a very important source of employment generation.
UNEMPLOYMENT & UNDEREMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYMENT
People who, during a given period, do not have any source of paid work and are looking for a job without getting it.
UNDEREMPLOYMENT
Extremely poor workers who do not have a permanent job and live "day to day", so they are forced to do any kind of work with extremely low incomes.
GENERATION OF
EMPLOYMENT
Activities like commerce, the financial and transport.
Other very important activities, such as manufacturing, have lost relevance.
Self-employed workers represent 28%
Microenterprises, 2-5 people, 32%
Small and medium enterprises, 32%
MULTIJOB
Family multi-employment: Permanent employment and informal economy is mixed.
Young people, boys, and girls, also work informally.
Social Security
Retirement pensions and health insurance were created for public employees and a few private employees
"Security has been extended to all workers, farmworkers, artisans, and other sectors, such as domestic workers."
