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Populations battling with disease lack the energy, productivity, or means to invest in their own future.
It was Britain’s rising agricultural productivity in the 18th century, for example, which helped to raise nutrition levels and reduce the burden of infectious diseases, that helped to initiate the Industrial Revolution.
We could see it in Scandinavia, and in scattered pockets elsewhere, but the strong imprint of improved computer and communications technologies on the growth rates of output and productivity economy-wide seemed to be missing.
Western Europe's productivity per hour worked, for example, is now only 10% or so below America's.
Moreover, the economy-wide productivity gap between the US and Western Europe does not appear to be widening very rapidly, if at all.
Western European productivity growth almost matches America's, suggesting that the new economy is coming to Western Europe, only quietly and with much less fanfare than in America.
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.
Investing in irrigation and water management would boost productivity.
That promises to boost their own growth while creating space for the Chinese economy to move up the value chain, where productivity and wages – important determinants of consumption – are higher.
Economies hooked on this model find themselves excessively specialized in primary products that promise little productivity growth.
In each country, a number of prices are rigid, because sellers resist selling cheaper, as low productivity gains and wage defense by unions leave no margin for lower prices.
The intertwined forces of chronic Keynesian imbalance, a slowdown in productivity growth, and a concentration of income at the top lead to a very subdued outlook for growth in median income.
I believe that, as the digital revolution and artificial intelligence restructure larger segments of economic activity, overall productivity growth may accelerate again, leading to higher expected returns and, therefore, more investment and faster growth.
The natural consequences are too little employment, too little investment in sophisticated education, too little innovation, and minimal increases in productivity.
Productivity growth almost doubled, increasing from just above 1% in the period 1990-95 to over 2% in 1995-2000.
Moreover, we see no sign of a slowdown: in 2001-02 productivity growth averaged almost 3%.
New information technologies account for perhaps 80% of the acceleration in US productivity.
Moreover, because much of the recent technological progress seen in the US largely remains to be exploited, the acceleration of productivity is not a temporary phenomenon, but a lasting one.
Looking ahead, this is of crucial importance, because the long-term economic well being of any country depends on steady productivity growth.
Since the new information technologies are easily available in all advanced countries, one would think that productivity would have accelerated everywhere, not just in the US.
While productivity was accelerating in the US, it was slowing down markedly in the largest EU economies.
This undoubtedly had a negative impact on productivity growth.
Between the first and second half of the 1990's, the "residual component of yearly productivity growth" (the part measuring the efficiency with which all the factors of production are used), declined by over 1% in Italy, Spain, and the UK.
In wholesale and retail distribution, but also in financial services and in other advanced service sectors, productivity was roughly constant in Europe, while it was growing at 4-5% a year on average in the US.
For example, cell phones are widespread in Europe; this probably improves the quality of free time, but does little to enhance labor productivity.
It is no coincidence that the only European countries with fast productivity growth in the second half of the 1990's were Ireland, Finland, and Sweden, where IT production accounts for a large share of aggregate output and employment.
Improved agricultural productivity would benefit rural areas and give farmers a comparative share in the Union’s growing wealth.
The labor market has been devastated by the crisis and is deeply segmented, with productivity growth stalled.
As water shortages depress productivity, reduce energy output at hydro plants, and cut food exports, economies are suffering.
But the combination of full employment and low growth rates actually points to an underlying problem: very slow productivity growth.
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