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By diverting resources away from productive uses, businesses would end up hurting many of the very people they claim to want to help.
But, too often in Africa’s history, money that should have financed productive investment has been looted or squandered.
They may be doing productive work, but in economies where informality is effectively institutionalized, owing to a lack of data-collection mechanisms.
As more people gain the skills and access the opportunities to fill productive jobs in the formal sector, where they are registered and recognized, governments will get a better sense of the labor market.
Countries in most developing regions, such as Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia, may be able to absorb their armies of potential workers into productive employment and benefit appreciably from the ensuing economic boost.
Other regions, however, are likely to be unable to provide productive employment.
The ocean is our planet’s life-support-system, keeping it healthy and productive.
This means that it will need to overhaul its state-owned firms and the financial sector so that resources can flow to the most productive investment projects.
Rather than securing investment for productive sectors of the economy, the financial industry has become adept at securing investment in itself.
Much of its wealth reflects the increased value of energy, not productive economic activity.
It is true that not all debt is created equal, and there is a strong case for adding more of it if the purpose is to finance highly productive infrastructure investments.
This, together with technological innovations and the deployment of sidelined corporate cash, would unleash productive capacity, producing faster and more inclusive growth, while validating asset prices, which are now artificially elevated.
A gap emerged between the economy’s productive base, which remained stagnant, and Greeks’ expectations (and demands), which were rising fast.
Instead of focusing on structural reforms to liberate the economy’s productive forces, it relied on income cuts and tax increases.
Poverty reduction, like so many important endeavors, is subject to the law of diminishing returns: the more you do something, the less productive your efforts become.
Moreover, they can provide a productive outlet for young people, keeping them focused and engaged and boosting their self-esteem, thereby reducing their vulnerability to harmful social influences.
If, however, they commit to the experimentation, evidence collection, and evaluation that all smart public spending requires, sports-based investment can go a long way toward strengthening communities and enabling young people to live healthier, happier, and more productive lives.
Small companies everywhere are less productive than large firms – after all, growth is a selection process – but Italy’s peculiarity is that such companies are both much less efficient and much more numerous.
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, clean coal development through FutureGen, and industrial efficiency audits represent some of the most productive areas of ongoing cooperation.
To address the problem requires investing in inclusion, endowing people with skills, and connecting them to the inputs and networks that can make them productive.
The economist Robert Gordon has also argued that the world is low on economically productive ideas.
Moreover, Obama should resist the urge to approach the bilateral relationship purely in transactional terms, but instead should seek to strengthen India’s long-term capacity to be a productive partner with the US.
First, if other countries can become more productive and wealthier than the UK without excelling in higher learning, is the UK failing to capitalize on other key growth drivers?
But throughout that process, productivity gains have been reinvested to create new innovations, jobs, and industries, driving economic growth as older, less productive jobs are replaced with more advanced occupations.
Thanks to highly productive surplus economies, they can spend a lot more time being economically inactive.
With half of all African businesses owning or sharing a generator and citing electricity as a major constraint, decentralized renewables could keep Africa’s SMEs productive and their workers employed.
People could benefit from the subsidy only by engaging in productive work – that is, a job that employers deem worth paying something for.
What is needed is higher employment and pay through higher demand for the least productive workers.
Since 2000, America's excess productive capacity has outstripped the Euro area and Japan combined, its economy growing far more slowly than its 3.5% to 4% annual potential, with US unemployment rising.
Less efficient industrial sectors have accumulated significant excess capacity, destabilizing the entire economy, while more productive, efficient sectors lack access to the resources they need.
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