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Fortunately, today’s private-sector labs are bursting with innovations that could spark major productivity-enhancing technological and operational improvements.
Notwithstanding some recent modest improvements in the US labor market, America’s job situation remains terrible.
The improvements do not stop there: the world is more literate; child labor has been dropping; we are living in one of the most peaceful times in history; and the majority of the world’s governments are democratic regimes.
But even the best and most up-to-date donor policies will remain vain exercises if governments in developed countries fail to translate their commitments into hard cash and improvements in agricultural investment worldwide.
Third, despite some significant improvements, major deficiencies in the coverage and quality of infrastructure are clearly affecting competitiveness and increasing costs.
Throughout modern history, improvements in public health have speeded economic development.
Data are the currency of performance, accountability, and credibility in the global economy, and improvements in data have been linked to better governance and higher levels of private investment.
Steps that reduce global dependence on the region’s energy supplies (including improvements in fuel efficiency and development of alternative sources) also make great sense.
The Treaty introduces major improvements here, enabling us to work together more effectively to achieve our aims.
Such decisive improvements are certainly possible and economically realistic.
The initial approach was to link policy improvements in the borrowing countries not only with help from international institutions, but also with additional lending from the banks – which seemed to defy the most elementary canons of sensible bank behavior.
On a good day, it may even get to make improvements.
Sustainable long-term growth – based on efficiency improvements, productivity gains, and innovation – is possible only with an effective institutional framework, and that requires fundamental changes to the political and regulatory systems.
Whether the changes are profoundly disruptive, or merely provide incremental improvements in products, services, or business models, the results boost an economy’s long-run productivity.
Consumers benefit from these improvements, regardless of whether they live in rich or poor countries.
These improvements raise farm productivity and facilitate diversification into non-traditional crops with higher returns.
But a majority of even highly training engineers and scientists are involved in what is called "ordinary science," the important, day-to-day improvements in technology that are the basis of long-term increases in productivity - and it is not clear that America has a long-term competitive advantage here.
Following the Internet boom of the late 1990's, job creation slowed, while efficiency improvements continued to reduce the labor required by the "old" goods and services.
But, apart from a few industries, such as toys and bicycles, far fewer jobs are lost to imports than to efficiency improvements.
Provided this capacity remains in good repair, job "losses" - through improvements in the efficiency of domestic production or through outsourcing to low-wage countries - will enhance standards of living.
Its analysis of national efforts shows that, while most countries have made improvements over the last year, improvement in some of the largest countries has been minimal, and a few countries have not made any progress at all.
We might expect to get more results for this money, but in fact, most aid recipients are doing poorly in economic performance, and several studies have shown only weak links between foreign aid and improvements in living standards in the recipient countries.
Supporters of lifting the arms export ban argue that this litany of sins does not reflect China’s real improvements in human rights and penalizes European armaments jobs to the benefit of Russia, which enjoys a lively arms trade with its neighbor (something it might one day regret).
For starters, reducing them can yield economic benefits, owing to the significant energy-efficiency improvements afforded by newer air-conditioning and refrigeration systems.
The good news is that Latin America’s agendas for technology, productivity, and inclusivity overlap; for example, improvements in education and the encouragement of formal employment advance all three objectives.
As improvements in computers, robotic technologies, and other forms of job automation continue to accelerate, more workers are certain to be displaced, and job creation will become even more challenging.
First, drastic improvements in water-related services – including supply and sanitation, irrigation and drainage, energy, and environmental facilities – are needed to improve health outcomes and enable more people to escape poverty.
Finally, the price index used by the Census Bureau fails to capture the important contributions of new products and product improvements to Americans’ standard of living.
But that price index does not reflect new products or improvements to existing goods and services.
Thus, if everyone’s money incomes rose by 2% from one year to the next, while the prices of all goods and services also rose by 2%, the official calculation would show no change in real incomes, even if new products and important quality improvements contributed to our wellbeing.
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