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This was a remarkable admission: through their transition policies, they had managed, in just a few years, to decrease the productive capacity of the world's number two superpower by more than 40%, a devastating outcome greater than that of any war!
A productive Chinese contribution would demonstrate its commitment to being a responsible stakeholder in the wider world community.
Setting aside the recent African commodity boom, most economic growth has happened in three world regions with similar productive arrangements.
Because recipient governments and corporations rely on international financial institutions not just for money, but also for technical assistance and policy advice, these institutions are well positioned to change the culture of development to allow for a safer and more productive process.
While debt might be a problem for Chinese companies with excess capacity and low productivity, companies in fast-growing, productive sectors and regions may not be in too much trouble.
The planet’s biomass – forests, pastureland, savannas, and crops – make up productive capital that generates a 10% “return” every year.
Food yields per acre (or hectare) are inadequate because impoverished farm households lack some or all of the four inputs needed for modern and productive agriculture: soil-nutrient replenishment (through organic and chemical fertilizers), irrigation or other water-management techniques, improved seed varieties, and sound agricultural advice.
When I became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1997, Nigeria served as an example of productive cooperation between Christians and Muslims.
Moreover, the US will be paying for its current excesses with the promise of future payments, and inefficient stimulus now will not give future generations the productive resources needed to make good on it.
It is time to force big business back into the business of productive investment and job creation.
In the words of David Brooks of The New York Times: “After decades of affluence, the US has drifted away from the hardheaded practical mentality that built the nation’s wealth in the first place….America’s brightest minds have been abandoning industry and technical enterprise in favor of more prestigious but less productive fields like law, finance, consulting, and nonprofit activism.”
But some of the most prominent American concerns about China’s intellectual-property regime today come from companies that want to invest in China, including the establishment of productive capacity there.
Also, given that 18-year olds are less skilled than average Russian workers, the military would attract better-trained and more productive soldiers, resulting in further savings.
Pastoralist systems are 20% more productive than traditional ranching methods.
The more factories and machines a country has, and the more it replaces older factories and machines with more up-to-date models, the more productive its labor force is.
What is clear is that, by allowing a greater proportion of an economy’s wealth to be channeled toward investment and other productive economic activities, a more efficient financial-services industry boosts economic growth.
Despite India’s considerable improvement over the past quarter-century – its GHI rating has risen from 32.6 in 1990 to 21.3 in 2013 – the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization believes that 17% of Indians are still too undernourished to lead a productive life.
Without skills, people find themselves locked out of productive, rewarding economic activities, leaving them unable to meet their needs for housing, healthcare and nutrition.
Compared to developed countries, an unusually large number of small, unproductive firms coexist with a small number of large, productive firms.
If the small, unproductive firms closed down and the larger, more productive firms hired their workers, total output and well-being would rise.
This should happen automatically through the invisible hand of competition, because the more productive firms should be able to deliver a better product at a lower price, while luring workers with higher wages.
A productive starting point would be China-US collaboration on energy efficiency and security, greener growth, and climate change.
It proved impossible to make Central Asian nomads into productive farmers in a single growing season.
The costs usually strike in the prime of women’s economically productive lives, devaluing their future contributions to society.
West African cocoa is an important part of Hershey’s unique flavor, but in that region, cocoa trees are aging and becoming less productive.
ECOM has created an innovative financing model that helps farmers remove old or diseased tree, and replant with resilient and more productive hybrids.
Such a move would deter excessive investment in productive capacity, and ease the implementation of a more flexible exchange-rate regime.
An urban SDG, promoting inclusive, productive, and resilient cities, would greatly empower tens of thousands of cities worldwide to take up the cause of sustainable development for their own citizens, their countries, and the world.
Addressing them successfully would allow the country to generate the savings needed to meet its huge looming public-investment requirements: expansion of productive infrastructure (roads, ports, and airports) in order to remove severe bottlenecks to faster non-inflationary growth; unprecedentedly large planned investment in oil exploration and electricity generation; and forthcoming international sporting events (the World Cup and the Olympic Games) that Brazil will host in the next few years.
Each dollar spent would help disadvantaged children become $35 more productive.
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