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Eighteenth-century physiocrats believed that only the farmer was productive, and that everyone else was somehow cheating the farmers out of their fair share.
The good news is that we know how to prepare Roma children to be productive members of society.
Back then, most of the country was not governed at all, half of the economy’s productive capacity vanished, the Kremlin could not get a single reform law through the Communist Duma, and only lazy people were not talking about the country’s disintegration.
Migrants change jobs twice a year on average, as they “grease the wheels” of European labor markets with their mobility from less to more productive jobs.
Economic statistics would record this as highly productive – until, of course, the company runs out of stock.
Can we have a productive dialogue with Iran while rejecting the mad ideology of its president?
We can see this concretely in the development and declining costs of new medicines like HIV drugs, and in the creation of new seeds that allow poor farmers to be more productive.
The imposition of higher capital requirements on riskier investments has pushed financial institutions into holding government debt, which in turn means that they have less money available to lend for productive investment.
We are beginning to appreciate that in our productive years we must work harder, because our retirement years will be longer and healthier, and the income support provided by our governments and employers will be far less generous than they used to be.
And, while aging could be transformed into an opportunity if the elderly could be made more productive, this requires action at the national and societal levels, not more European integration.
Deficits are problematic if they finance consumption, not productive public investment on infrastructure.
With central banks – the de facto best friend of financial markets these days – pushing for increasingly large financial risk-taking (as a means of stimulating productive economic risk-taking), this is no easy feat.
A failure to absorb large numbers of people into productive employment could lead to mass suffering and myriad catastrophes.
From a purely demographic perspective, the advanced economies’ productive capacity has reached a plateau of slightly more than two working-age people per dependent.
Chinese policymakers should view the shadow-banking scare as a market-driven opportunity to transform the banking system into an efficient, balanced, inclusive, and productive engine of growth.
By 1992, however, over-fishing had forced the total closure of this once highly productive fishery, and, despite all efforts, Newfoundland’s Grand Banks has never recovered.
Basically, it is productive change, which I call economic dynamism .
Less obviously, a country does not want misguided or pointless change; it wants investments that appear to the financial sector as productive.
Meanwhile, millions of Egypt’s talented citizens have operated in a system that, for decades, has been better at hindering than facilitating productive endeavors.
Because the young and economically productive age groups are the hardest hit, the disease's overall impact is even more destructive--condemning poor countries to generations of grinding despair.
Most people saw the consolidation of smaller firms into fewer, large firms as a stabilizing development that rewarded success and allowed for further productive investment.
This would help establish the trust that is now sorely lacking, and create conditions to restart productive negotiations.
Employee ownership improves incentives for employee productivity, and reduces incentives for a firm to exploit its workers by, for example, imposing poor wages or working conditions on employees who, though highly productive, find that for personal or professional reasons their opportunities for alternative employment have decreased over time.
The previous destruction of productive capacity has come home to roost.
Without protection against deadly diseases like measles, pneumonia, and rotavirus, many of these children are being denied a chance to grow up healthy, attend school, and lead productive lives.
In the interim, the burden of adjustment will fall largely on monetary policy, which will be particularly challenging given the structural “tightness” in liquidity in the more productive sectors.
In other words, interest-rate reforms must be pursued alongside capital-market reforms that boost access to credit by the more productive sectors.
The key to success will be to manage the sequence of liquidity injections and interest-rate reforms so that the effort to address local subprime debts does not trigger asset-price deflation, while reducing financial repression that cuts off funding to more productive sectors and regions.
All people want healthy and productive lives for themselves and their loved ones, so they will welcome new insights into why people in their community die or get sick.
The 103-minute production, by the prominent journalist Chai Jing, highlights the health risks posed by the thick smog shrouding China’s most productive cities.
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