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But gains in measured productivity growth from this source are not permanent changes, so a large part of the reported reductions in unit labor costs are temporary.
Large reductions in public-sector wages brought down the primary deficit, but employment maintenance lowers productivity, raises costs, and delays adjustment.
Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.
In developing countries, import substitution as a way to jump-start economic diversification can work for a while; but, over time, as productivity growth lags and comparative advantage is over-ridden, growth grinds to a halt.
Once again, Spain is proposing practical and innovative means to move from talk to action, specifically to help impoverished peasant farmers to get the tools, seeds, and fertilizer that they need to increase their farm productivity, incomes, and food security.
As pushed by IMF “structural adjustment programs,” liberalization was supposed to move workers from low to high productivity jobs.
In all too many countries, however, it moved them from low to zero productivity jobs – unemployment.
Moreover, fiscal deficits and inflation squeeze out investment and limit productivity gains.
Inadequate human capital makes much-needed productivity growth difficult to come by.
As traditional industries increase their usage of the Internet, they streamline their operations, find new methods of collaboration, and expand their reach via e-commerce – all of which accelerate productivity growth.
Beyond its effects on GDP and productivity, the Internet can also boost transparency and trust.
We can increase productivity in our factories and reduce food waste.
The productivity of aid has also improved because of progress in the policy environment and the investment climate in developing countries.
This would seriously dampen the EU’s growth potential, unless it is offset by a substantial boost in productivity, extended participation in the labor force, or higher immigration levels.
At the McKinsey Global Institute, we have identified 11 sets of measures that, if enacted across Europe, would boost productivity, mobilize the workforce, and make investment – bets on the future – attractive again.
But this kind of migration actually undermines productivity.
But are European countries with lagging productivity willing to accept depopulation?
Weak health-care systems must also be strengthened in order to tackle the endemic diseases that sap productivity, such as malaria, as well as improving preparedness for outbreaks of deadly epidemics.
Such reforms are essential to raise productivity growth and improve the Japanese economy’s competitiveness.
And the rebound is not over, with business investment finally picking up after a decade of slack, thereby laying a foundation for faster growth and higher productivity gains in the future.
Such sharing-oriented businesses increase the productivity of existing capital, while creating new jobs for workers.
Apprenticeships could not only help to boost human capital, lower unemployment, and increase labor productivity; they could also help to fuel the innovation and entrepreneurial spirit that ultimately drive economic growth and development.
The initial disappointment about electronic productivity was thus a vivid demonstration of the limits of classical individualism.
Suddenly, economists (especially in the United States) began to measure substantial productivity gains.
In 2000-2012, non-oil productivity declined in all GCC countries except Saudi Arabia, which experienced only a marginal increase.
Longer-term factors like weak investment, decelerating labor-force growth, and a sharp slowdown in productivity growth have reduced income growth for the median household in most advanced countries relative to the 1993-2005 period.
Paradoxically, one indicator that has been improving steadily in the US – productivity – may be the clearest sign of the problem.
When it comes to productivity, managers either invest in employee training, more efficient manufacturing processes, and the like, or they take steps that appear to boost productivity in the short run but that erode it in the long run.
No one can determine how much of America’s productivity gains in recent years have resulted from squeezing human capital, because such things are not measured.
And, in fact, much of the US productivity increase in the 1980’s and 1990’s can likely be attributed to large-scale investment in information and communications technology.
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