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Such efforts have bolstered global demand for commodities, while diversifying African economies and enhancing the productive capacity of domestic suppliers.
Sustainable recovery requires synergistic reforms that unleash the country’s considerable potential by removing bottlenecks in several areas: productive investment, credit provision, innovation, competition, social security, public administration, the judiciary, the labor market, cultural production, and, last but not least, democratic governance.
This time, by contrast, the new development bank would take the lead in channeling scarce homegrown resources into selected productive investment.
This – together with the gold exchange standard, which ensured that credit did not exceed the economy’s productive capacity – contributed to sustained global economic growth.
Europe has demonstrated that a sense of common ownership, combined with concrete solutions, can encourage productive dialogue, opening the door to mutually beneficial cooperation.
At the end of 2010, most eurozone countries were penciling spending cuts into their consolidation programs while preserving the most productive areas, such as education and infrastructure.
We must start reinventing our productive systems now, precisely because the path of change will be so long and the environmental dangers are already so pressing.
For example, Chinese state-owned enterprises that gained access to huge amounts of easy money and credit are buying equities and stockpiling commodities well beyond their productive needs.
In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.
Others have higher nutritional value, making them ideally suited for developing-country populations that struggle to acquire the nutrients they need to lead healthy, productive lives.
And India and South Africa are forging embryonic and productive trade and political links, especially with Brazil.
Nonetheless, one hopes that the treatment of those who make the goods, produce the services, and build the things that make us happy and productive – from clothing and technology to sports stadiums and college campuses – continues to come under scrutiny.
China’s success may vindicate a model advanced by the late Nobel laureate economist W. Arthur Lewis, which explains how employment in new, more productive sectors can absorb surplus labor and push up wages over all.
We are looking forward to continuing our productive dialogue with the US State Department Legal Adviser.
This erodes an economy’s skills base and saps its long-term productive capacities.
There can be no doubting, for example, that China has a keen interest in allocating its vast stockpile of savings to productive use on projects undertaken abroad.
With Chinese companies no longer able to sell a rapidly increasing volume of products abroad and support further expansion of productive capacity, the economy has lost some important growth, employment, and wage engines.
Economic wealth cannot be created by government decree; it comes from productive jobs that create goods and services that people value.
This also applies to government-created and guaranteed jobs: if a job is indeed productive, its output would be rewarded by other members of society who benefit from it, without the need for government subsidies and guarantees.
As citizens start relying on redistribution, productive work is discouraged, and real wealth creation suffers.
Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people’s money.
State handouts can be reliably financed only by controlling the economy’s productive sectors.
Arab countries need to become places where people can create their own productive jobs, pursue their own opportunities, provide for themselves, and determine their own future.
More productive infrastructure could reduce the world’s infrastructure bill by 40%, or $1 trillion annually – savings that could boost economic growth by about 3%, or more than $3 trillion, by 2030.
Today, productive forests cover an area of more than a billion hectares, or about one-quarter of the world’s forested land.
Moreover, in countries such as India and Indonesia, investment in infrastructure and transportation can reap dividends by connecting more women to productive work opportunities.
It is urgent to put in place mechanisms that encourage private capital to return to southern Europe (this time to invest in productive assets), and to sustain demand in Germany and northern Europe.
More and more, the question is not put in terms of whether to do active productive development policies but rather how to do them.”
Yet productivity growth has slowed across the advanced economies; in Britain, labor is no more productive today than it was in 2007.
Overall productivity doubles, and can double again, as both agriculture and manufacturing become still more productive, with some workers then shifting to restaurants or health-care services.
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