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Thus, workers who are not productive enough to justify a wage above the replacement income are bound to become unemployed.
Cities, for example, can be highly productive spaces, because they allow people to combine their different skills to make things that none of them could make individually.
No wonder so many prefer to stay home and work on their own, which may explain why so many developing countries are becoming more urbanized but not more productive.
This approach would promote socially diverse and productive neighborhoods, rather than segregation and pockets of economic stagnation.
What happened in Venezuela can be understood as a two-step process in which liberalism was destroyed first, to disempower the productive elites.
Dollar abundance convinced the ruling clique that the state could substitute for the productive elite, through nationalization and other forms of collective property.
BERKELEY – At a recent conference in Washington, DC, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said that US policymakers should focus on productive activities that take place in the United States and employ American workers, not on corporations that are legally registered in the US but locate production elsewhere.
Moreover, European labor productivity figures are inflated by the fact that potential workers who would be less productive are much less likely to hold any jobs at all.
Germany is being “betrayed to foreigners” by the opposition, and “good” productive capital is once again being opposed to “bad” speculative capital.
The People’s Bank of China has been providing spurts of liquidity to the market, in the hope of relieving financial constraints on productive private businesses and industries.
Given that the private sector is generally significantly more productive than SOEs or LGFVs, generating much higher returns on investment, the absence of hard budget constraints on troubled SOEs clearly must be addressed.
Given that private firms enjoy no such official protections and thus play on a field that is nowhere near level, they must be substantially more productive and competitive than the SOEs.
Only then can monetary policy achieve its goal: supporting productive investment, innovation, the scaling of private-sector businesses, and real economic growth.
For these countries, including Mexico, stable, close, and productive relations with America are essential.
Even if some costs were to rise, it would be worth it if the result were better-educated and more productive citizens.
This has forced productive research laboratories to close, putting potentially life-saving research – like that on an Ebola vaccine – on the back burner.
Finding security with others, rather than against them, and concentrating on cooperative approaches to achieving global and regional public goods, seems more productive than giving free rein to crude nationalist sentiment and planning ever more sophisticated and expensive ways to destroy one another.
They all provide some degree of effective property rights protection and contract enforcement, maintain macroeconomic stability, seek to integrate into the world economy, and ensure an appropriate environment for productive diversification and innovation.
Two kinds of institutions in particular need shoring up: conflict management institutions to enhance economies’ resilience to external shocks, and institutions that promote productive diversification.
Such spending risks absorb productive resources that could be employed more efficiently elsewhere.
In other words, Europe has not been able to exploit the new technologies for productive purposes, both as a user and as a producer of IT.
With regard to IT use , Europe has spent a lot of money investing in IT, but often not for productive purposes.
But why does Europe find it so hard to exploit IT for productive purposes?
A simplified CAP would encourage cleaner, more productive, and efficient agriculture.
They could make a real contribution to cleaner, more productive, and efficient farming and land use, while addressing social needs.
When the United Nations Secretary-General’s advisory group investigated how to raise money to pay for climate-change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, its members singled out instruments that address international aviation and shipping emissions as one of the most productive methods.
Moreover, the region’s most productive farmers could be identified and encouraged to share their best practices with other farmers.
New Equities for Infrastructure InvestmentSINGAPORE – Infrastructure projects can be among the most productive investments a society can make, with clear links to a country's economic growth.
But, whatever its causes, putting people back to work at productive, rewarding jobs can help a great deal, and this demands the best efforts of governments, employers, and civil-society groups on many fronts.
Why is it that today’s smaller and more educated urbanized families in emerging-market economies are so much less productive than their counterparts were a half-century ago in today’s rich countries?
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