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The growth of potential GDP will reflect the structural rise of the labor force, the increase in the capital stock, and the improvement in multifactor productivity (i.e., the change in the output that results from improvements in technology rather than from increases in labor and capital.)
Such improvements are the ultimate test of a successful society.
The benefits of nutrition-focused improvements are estimated to be 19 times higher than the costs, which are low.
And our economic plan created the foundation for the strengthening of the recovery that we have seen throughout 2013, with our Funding for Lending Scheme leading to significant improvements in credit conditions.
Making matters worse, even where girls’ educational attainment has grown rapidly, commensurate improvements for women in the workforce have remained elusive.
Any increase will depend entirely on improvements in education and training, which are absent from the data, and from investment in equipment and structures, which is depressed relative to historical levels.
But the Internet cannot deliver such improvements in efficiency and transparency unless countries build the digital infrastructure needed to connect the world’s huge offline population.
Policymakers and business leaders in these countries will want to pay attention to how their generic drug producers score, so that they can make improvements.
With expected technology improvements, the cost would drop to about $47/kW by 2015, within shouting range of the department’s target of $30/kW, a benchmark figure that more or less corresponds to today’s manufacturing cost for gasoline engines.
We agree that the single-minded pursuit of competitiveness is turning Europe into a zero-sum, beggar-thy-neighbor game, but disagree about how to bring about the large-scale investment needed to support productivity improvements.
He has also pledged tax cuts for medium and lower-paid workers, and improvements to America’s education system.
The biggest improvements for consumers, though, come not from privatization, but from competition.
Exploiting these opportunities will require trillions of dollars in investment, radical improvements in productivity, and the government’s firm, sustained commitment.
It will also require large improvements in productivity.
These private sector improvements, however, are nowhere to be seen among large businesses controlled by Government, even though many of these firms have a substantial minority of private shareholders who need protection from managerial abuse.
After a gradual buildup and significant improvements in transport, the British government authorized another attack on Baghdad.
The research conducted so far by Fed economists shows that a long time has also been needed for the impact of computers to be felt in measurable improvements in productivity for the entire American economy.
Arab states like Jordan have shown that reducing corruption in the security sector enables significant improvements, even in a challenging environment comprising long borders, extensive black market trade fed by wars in neighboring states, and large refugee populations.
Without well-designed policy measures, improvements in the energy efficiency of buildings and appliances will continue at a relatively slow pace in Asia.
Nor is there any shortage of other issues and systemic improvements, not least nuclear-arms reduction, on which to work.
Consequently, governance improvements that make directors more focused on shareholder interests cannot be relied on to tie executive payoffs to the interests of shareholders and non-shareholders alike.
So, too, are management improvements in the food industry which have boosted output and quality.
Just look at the issues that are beginning to agitate the political debate in advanced societies: birth control, death control, life prolongation, health cures, improvements in appearance, intellectual enhancement, personality alteration, human cloning, brain transplants, synthesis of human and artificial intelligence.
A few major pharmaceutical companies compete for a finite group of diabetics by offering new formulations, marginal improvements in blood-sugar control, competitive pricing, and strategic partnerships with insurers and health-care providers.
For starters, national health-care spending across the OECD must shift from its almost exclusive focus on medical care and embrace new entrants that can deliver health improvements.
No political system capable of overcoming hardship and misery can be built without first realizing improvements in the economy's potential.
More food is available, thanks to higher agricultural yields and waste-reducing improvements in storage and distribution.
UNESCO estimates that that improvements in girls’ education from 1990 to 2009 have saved the lives of 2.1 million children under the age of five.
Fortunately, new technologies can bring about large improvements in literacy among the very poor.
New manufacturing techniques and new products or product improvements are usually embodied in new machines and skills.
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