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Of course, slowing productivity growth is not good for longer-term economic performance, and it may be among the forces holding back the United States as it approaches “full” employment.
With higher aggregate demand and more efficient use of existing human capital and other resources, economies could achieve a significant boost in medium-term growth, even without productivity gains.
None of this is to say that we should ignore the productivity challenge.
But the truth is that productivity is not the principal economic problem right now.
Old Methods for New DrugsPALO ALTO – Despite high expectations, productivity is frustratingly low in biopharmaceutical research and development.
Contrary to expectations, however, the increased efficiency implied by target identification has not increased productivity.
The Nature Reviews article proposed that lower productivity partly reflects target-based discovery’s lack of consideration of the molecular complexities of how the drugs work.
Addressing the MMOA would contribute to reversing the low productivity of target-based discoveries, because merely knowing the identity of a part involved in a defect may not be sufficient to repair a malfunctioning machine.
And we know how to do that: accommodative monetary policy; fiscal adjustment in all advanced economies that includes concrete and realistic plans to reduce debt over the medium term, but does not undercut short-term growth; completing the banking-sector cleanup; and reforms to boost productivity and growth potential.
But economic growth, even in traditionally export-led economies, is driven by productivity growth, not by the ability to capture a growing share of global markets.
While imports must, of course, be financed by exports, the focus on trade competitiveness is drawing attention away from Europe’s underlying problem – very weak productivity growth.
Economies running external surpluses are regarded as “competitive,” regardless of their productivity or growth performance.
But if all firms cut wages simultaneously, the resulting weakness of overall demand undermines companies’ incentives to invest, in turn depressing productivity growth.
There is a very strong correlation between rising labor productivity and economic growth, which holds for countries with trade surpluses as well as those with deficits.
So the European Union’s rate of productivity growth, not the size of its trade surplus, will largely determine its economic prospects.
Unfortunately, productivity growth is declining across Europe, from around 3.5% annually in the 1970’s to barely 1% in the 2000’s.
And productivity growth has been almost as weak in the eurozone’s core as in its troubled periphery.
Governments throughout the EU should focus on raising productivity – not just in the most internationally exposed sectors, like manufacturing, but also in less tradable sectors, such as services, which now account for around two-thirds of economic activity.
Without stronger productivity gains there, economic growth will prove elusive.
But improvement presupposes diagnosing why Europe’s productivity performance, with a few notable exceptions, has been so bad.
Where this tendency is strongest, productivity levels are weakest.
The study’s findings led Annan to advocate for a “uniquely African green revolution” to increase farm productivity, and his plea later became the basis for the African Green Revolution Forum.
Africa’s small farmers can be integrated into agricultural value chains, but not without first increasing farm productivity.
In order to ensure long-term stability, Asia must find new sources of growth, increase productivity, and improve efficiency.
Greater female participation in male-dominated occupations across the board would increase overall labor productivity by up to 25%.
Labor unions should negotiate with management about providing appropriate risk management to their employees in financial forms: the right kinds of insurance, options, and other investments to protect them realistically without guaranteeing their employment and without jeopardizing the productivity of the firm.
And Europe’s troubled economies have been slow to undertake structural reforms; improvements in competitiveness reflect wage and salary cuts, rather than productivity gains.
Shade trees, maize, and plantains are also being planted to help diversify incomes and increase productivity.
Each new wave of technology increased productivity and access to knowledge.
But China has attained much higher GDP growth than the OECD economies, driven largely by the rapid productivity gains that characterize the initial “catch up” phase of emerging-market development.
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