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These gains were visible in several sectors, including retail, wholesale trade, financial services, and the computer industry itself.
In the meantime, however, we are likely to see another productivity paradox; the gains from changes in the way businesses operate will take time to be detected at the macroeconomic level.
Sensors on cars can deliver immediate gains by monitoring the engine, cutting maintenance costs, and extending the life of the vehicle.
But even greater gains can be made by connecting the sensors to traffic monitoring systems, thereby cutting travel time for thousands of motorists, saving energy, and reducing pollution.
Some of the productivity gains from the Internet of Things will result from the use of data to guide changes in processes and develop new business models.
Technically, a significant part of the repayment of this “borrowed” money came from the distribution of central-bank gains.
But what gains?
The accounting rules applied to the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) allow for bi-annual transfers of gains (and losses) to the Treasury, which include unrealized profits.
But such a massive distribution of a central bank’s gains can generate potential conflicts with its mission.
A monetary authority is supposed to manage the money supply effectively, not generate gains.
The BCB’s increasing gains, based on unrealized profits, risk seriously undermining its autonomy.
China’s stability hinges critically on its government’s ability to deliver steady economic gains to the vast majority of the population.
That policy produced short-term consumption gains for America, which explains why it was popular with American politicians, but it has inflicted major long-term damage on the US economy and contributed to the current crisis.
Earlier this summer, the US Congress, recognizing these gains and underscoring the strength of America’s commitment to Africa, overwhelmingly approved legislation to reauthorize AGOA for another ten years.
We should not ignore how the absence of a peace process could ultimately erode the fragile (and by no means universal) gains in the rest of the Arab world.
Moreover, it has provided crucial guidance to countries, helping them to track economic gains that have improved citizens’ quality of life considerably – in many cases lifting them out of destitution.
If they perceive improvements in their terms of trade as permanent – a view that gains traction as prices climb – increases in consumption and investment tend to outpace income gains, and public and private leverage grows.
While there are good arguments for higher investment in infrastructure – from employment creation to productivity gains – one cannot ignore the fact that it will likely attract more global savings, pushing the dollar even higher.
For developing countries, expanding manufacturing industries enables not only improved resource allocation, but also dynamic gains over time.
But these gains have come at the expense of – and to some extent because of – industry rationalization and employment reductions.
The results of this research, and the dramatically improved gains in learning and interest achieved in associated teaching experiments, show that there are tremendous opportunities to improve university science education.
A supra-national political space can develop only if European politics gains visibility, influence, and credibility.
Finally, real gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS will require drug makers to account for the limitations of health-care systems and distribution networks in the developing countries they serve.
Firms will be more focused on wrangling the best financial incentives than on investing in areas with the highest potential productivity gains, and economic dynamism will suffer as a result.
First, today’s trade rules and international development-finance institutions must stop blocking potential industrial and economic gains from green investment supported by tax revenues.
The gap between Haiti’s performance and its potential is now so large that great gains can be achieved in income levels, farming, health, education, and more.
China’s gains still come largely from adoption of Western technology, and in some cases, appropriation of intellectual property.
But in some cases, such an approach offers the opportunity for huge efficiency gains relative to aid delivered through complex and costly institutions.
It seems clear that a second rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate would plunge the EU into a renewed crisis and threaten to derail the considerable gains in both democratic legitimacy and collective decision-making capacity deriving from the new Treaty.
And it is becoming increasingly difficult for China to take advantage of technology-driven productivity gains.
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